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I got my Covid booster yesterday and decided to cut myself some slack – my intended essay on Utopias<\/em> can wait. They ain’t going nowhere… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was persuaded when work by Angela Smyth<\/a>, an artist from Yorkshire, popped up in my inbox. I found both, ideas and implementation, truly charming. (Came right after the announcement that conceptual Jesse Darling<\/a> had won the 2023 Turner Prize. Like art from two different planets. Not a value judgement, just my ongoing astonishment at the range that is out there.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the easy chair waiting for me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Angela Smyth The Easy Chair<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the perfect cat, (don’t you agree M.?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Angela Smyth A Great Head for Hats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is me some decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Angela Smyth Playing With Fire<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here is what I will be doing now, albeit in isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Angela Smyth The Bubblegum Collective – brought together monthly to share a love of blowing bubbles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gum, anyone? You can listen and chew at the same time – here’s Traffic<\/a><\/em>, a band also from the U.K. (Birmingham) that enchanted us half a century ago…. Man, I’m getting old. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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