Across the towns, beaches and countryside of West Sussex are placed the Cardboard Reality Interventions of the indefatigable artist, ukulele-virtuoso and friend of The Dabbler, Outa_Spaceman. We approve. Marine Gardens, Aldwick: Clyming Beach: Bognor Regis: 8424 ... Read More...
Psychogeography
Typographer and book designer Judith Schalansky grew up behind the Iron Curtain in 1980's East Germany. Unable to travel beyond the borders of her own insular country, she spent her childhood poring over maps of unobtainably far off places, "travelling through the atlas by finger . . . conquering distant worlds ... Read More...
A little while ago The Dabbler stumbled across this rather extraordinary and wonderful project - a family tree tracing British pub names and signs. British pub signs are one of the great features of our cultural landscape and, you might say, our psychogeography (I know one lady who can only navigate, and give directions, ... Read More...
As I wandered around the Frieze art fair this year (all very exclusive and mwah mwah, dahling), along with a blast of chilly air from London’s first cold snap, I also caught wind of complaints about frozen funding. In addition to checking out the trends and observing changes in style, ... Read More...
// In parks and playing fields, gardens and wasteground, well-worn dusty paths are to be found stretching away in threadbare lines towards their triangulated destinations. Gaston Bachelard called these les chemins du desir: pathways of desire -paths that were not designed but instead were eroded organically away by individuals deciding where ... Read More...
“Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reach’d the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean”. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The "secret river" has long been an obsession of dabblers, perhaps since the times when we lived in caves, and our ancestors ... Read More...
