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Richard Elliott's avatar

'Words are reluctant to come. Those I set down are clumsy and haphazard, heading first this way, then that. Always the doubt that they’re of any value, if this is how I can best serve these times.'

Beautifully put. Please know that your words have tremendous value. Since discovering them, and your other art, earlier this year, I have found them comforting, engaging and inspiring. Your work with patterns--visual and textual--was very much on my mind when I wrote my recent piece on patterns and repetition. I had intended to link to your work but didn't find the right point as my own text became unwound and I struggled to hold it together. You've expressed here some of what I was trying to get at there, thinking about the value of what we do to 'keep going', and the ways that patterns of behaviour and creativity become apparent to us as result of that keeping going.

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Linda Teadragon's avatar

A wonderfully calm & thoughtful start to the day. Thanks Sam! I shan't be aboard this afternoon as I'm in Edinburgh and taking in Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–1990. It will take me back - definitely a circling- to my rebellious twenties but I doubt it will be calming!

Have a very gentle bob on the ocean of calm this afternoon protected with love from the abounding storm x

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