No One Is Talking About This by Patrica Lockward – Loved it. So different, and smart – and sad. It really makes you think about our online lives, and how random and disconnected everything is. I haven’t read anything like it.
Such a Fun Age
Stages of Grief by William Deresiewicz – What the pandemic has done to the arts – Some scary stats. A depressing read… ‘In 1982, the top 1 percent of musicians earned 26 percent of concert revenue. By 2017, the top 1 percent earned 60 percent’. The article explores our devouring of the arts, for free; ‘ We need an art movement like the one we have for food, a movement for responsible consumption’.
John Cooper Clarke The Luckiest Guy Alive
Sinead O’Conner interview in The New York Times
Why We Speak More Weirdly at Home ‘As kids fumble and play with sounds and meaning, their cutesy word experiments can be picked up by the whole family, sometimes to be passed on between generations as verbal heirlooms of sorts’ I love the phrase ‘Verbal heirloom’ - my friend couldn’t pronounce her name properly when she was little so ‘Elisabeth became ‘Elisafluff’ and she is and has always been since, ‘Fluff’.

https://www.instagram.com/pomme_queen/ pearls, fruit and, flowers. *kisses fingers*
https://covidartmuseum.com/
Evie May Adams illustrations are lovely, and expressive – particularly the animal portraits.
Dan Pearson landscapes
A list of fun edit styles that are BIG on t’internet/apps
Have been working on a … challenging project. This came to mind; Too Many Cooks

Than Average – a small unscientific investigation into how we value and compare ourselves to each other.
https://howmanyplants.com/ A lovely website with advice and lots of gorgeous illustrations by Evie May Adams
https://cooooookies.com/ Another fun/silly MSCHF thing. Collect browser cookies and win actual cookies. Nom.
The 10000-year clock A long-term project with a very hopeful sentiment.