31/05/2026From Tumblr : Attempting to draw what selective mutism feels like.
24/05/2026Great podcast about art making as learning from Lois Hetland and Night Science
17/05/2026A poem about resistance.
16/05/2026Quote by Frederick Douglass, on work. From “Blessings of Liberty and Education (1894)”
10/05/2026A description of how an artwork spoke for itself to bring about a change in my practice.
08/05/2026Words in play in place
04/05/2026Another old TV series about Modern Art. Irony acknowlwdged.
07/09/2025Morning poem
06/09/2025Two Exceptional Women
05/09/2025An old TV series about the history of modern art
05/09/2025A poem about migrants
03/09/2025A poem about imagination and certainty
02/09/2025A poem about space and place
27/08/2025A warning poem. Croci warns us of the power of pockets and possesions.
23/08/2025A weekend poem
21/08/2025A day poem
17/08/2025A post about solo walking. Words by Frédéric Gros.
15/08/2025Morning poem
13/08/2025Morning Poem
12/08/2025Afternoon poem. Anon. Fen Tigers atrib. Poss 17th C about habitat loss.
11/08/2025Morning poem
10/08/2025Morning poem
08/08/2025Afternoon poem
07/08/2025Morning poem
06/08/2025Morning poem
05/08/2025Morning poem.
04/08/2025Some ideas about making art nobody sees but yourself as a way to promote wellbeing.
04/08/2025Morning poem
03/08/2025A potential manifesto for arts/ writing/reading or at least source material.
03/08/2025Morning poem
02/08/2025Art in everyday life
02/08/2025Early experiential learning
02/08/2025Morning poem
01/08/2025A great article about danger
01/08/2025Morning poem- 31/07/2025Morning poem
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29/07/2025Morning poem
19/07/2025Practice ideas about a working model for art as research of personal experience.
18/07/2025An article about artist Bas Jan Ader, artist as adventurer.
17/07/2025The spirit lives on.
17/07/2025Croci starts a business
10/07/2025An interview with Arts Therapist Krista Zeiter about process in art making.
09/07/2025A good article form Psychology Today about the benefits and blockages to curiosity.
08/07/2025An excellent overview of place and health from ‘Placeness, Place, Placelessness’ WP blog.
07/07/2025Remember…
07/07/2025A good article by Andrew Freiband about attention.
06/07/2025The world is naturally musical.
06/07/2025An introduction to artist Riccards Long’s walking work.
05/07/2025Croci reads Ted Hughes Crow and tells us how to live life as art- 04/07/2025Remember…
04/07/2025Croci does the dirt work
03/07/2025How Croci sees us but we don’t see Croci
02/07/2025A story of how Croci the Trickster, outwitted a clever man
02/07/2025An article about art making as a way of learning that promotes fluid intelligence
01/07/2025The first of a series of poems and stories about Croci the Crow
30/06/2025A good article about walking, in life and literature, as an act of personal agency.
29/06/2025An article about research which connects imagination of future action and active visualisation, with intention and action.
28/06/2025Two videos about research into how plants experience the world and how to imagine it through science.
26/06/2025A great site for walking as art.
24/06/2025This PBS short is a great introduction to land art. It can range from things that could be civil engineering to film of personal performance. This video gives a good broad overview.
24/06/2025Ideas about making art nobody sees but yourself
24/06/2025A post about learning to lead yourself into your own learning.
23/06/2025A video about how John Baldessari burned all his painting to become an artst
19/06/2025Ideas form an art historian about what art does as aopposded to what it is.
16/06/2025Notes on Practice william.j.obrien
10/06/2025This gives a brief description of what is meant by Art as Research
08/06/2025“I could be you, and you could be me. And this we learned we would be free…” Share your art.
08/06/2025We may ask “What is art?”. This post suggests some things it could be. Whatever it is, if you make it as art, it is what you say it is.
06/06/2025An interesting podcast about the variety subjective experience.
05/06/2025A short guide to ten top tips to help you make arts for health.
05/06/2025A benchmark guide for what art, the outdoors and health mean on this site.
05/06/2025A post about truth in the process and product of art making.
03/06/2025Some insight into insight from Suli Qyre on body object and art object
03/06/2025Article about drawing for health
24/04/2025Outdoor play, with singing and music.
21/04/2025A story of arts empowering people and the peoples resistance to power resisting their empowerment.
18/11/2024The universe as music according to physiscist and jazz muscician Steven Alexander.
12/11/2024A radio show about the changing role of the artist
08/11/2024Good article about the benefits of art making in prisons.
27/10/2024An post prompted by an article about order emerging out of disorder and interaction and diversity.
22/10/2024The fourth leg of the grid square walk.
18/10/2024A podcast which dives into ideas about art and spirituality in a modern world.
17/10/2024Link to an article about art making as thinking.
16/10/2024A quote from John Cage about art.
15/10/2024Ian McMillan talks to Margaret Atwood and Alice Oswald about how we write poetry, and their own process, the natural world, time, and the possibilities of myth.
14/10/2024Art, chaos, wellbeing, grass as an artist and a link to great article and podcast about arts and health.
13/10/2024A poem about art as research
13/10/2024A post about being overwhelmed by art
12/10/2024An interesting article …
11/10/2024An article featuring Brian Eno talking about playfulness and creativity
11/10/2024UK film collectives are pulling out the stops to make storytelling more inclusive
26/09/2024The third leg of the Walton Moss art walk
06/09/2024Second leg of walking as art.
03/09/2024The first of four articles about walking as art.
25/01/2024Some ideas about the end of the Anthropocene, about being human and about post-humanism, that links back to Hi Ren, and an old poem he reminded me of.
24/01/2024Don’t forget… Your civilian mind is so perfect at always being lied to. Don’t believe the hype.
16/11/2023Recent work by Scott Von Holzen reworking music through words.
15/11/2023Some things don’t change.
15/11/2023A reblog of archive material from Bournemouth Arts University Performance as Research site.
15/11/2023A YouTube podcast from Adam Zucker of the Artfully Learning website about walking as art. He interviews Ellen Mueller who wrote Walking as Artistic Practice.
12/11/2023I Might be Wrong. Radiohead live.
12/11/2023A video by Prof Thomas Fuchs about learning as a circular, relational, embodied process. Great for artists and experiential educators.
12/11/2023Chill out tunes to work by.
01/11/2023Some old post about some weird thing I did as art and forgot to post…
29/10/2023Making the Golden Ratio leads down an odd and surprising path.
29/10/2023An introduction to artist Tauba Auerbach, presented as an example of how art making can be undestood as research
26/10/2023Two ways of seeing art making as adventure.
19/10/2023Ideas about pre-colonial practice of place as an act of co-creation, like art or performance. One of the interesting things is the role of narrative, the telling of creation myths and how these inform attitude and actions.
18/10/2023Ideas and images of photography as re-viewing our subjective reality.
17/10/2023Ode to the joy of the analogue object.
12/10/2023Life as adventure. Life as art. Ursula le Guin wrote herself into existence.
11/10/2023A quick look at art as reviewing through the work of Garry Winogrand
08/10/2023Mellow tunes, warming up, urban, cool, soulful. Enjoy.
08/10/2023Happy new year. Here are some pictures.
06/10/2023October is upon us. Celtic New Year.
23/09/2023An introduction to the vastness of geological time. I live by the Solway, between England and Scotland, once either side of the Iapetus Ocean.
10/09/2023Be happy. Clap your hands.
10/09/2023A song about greed.
10/09/2023I started a Human Ecology degree in 1979. Club of Rome’s ‘Limits to Growth’ was required reading, publiched in 1972. I was saddened by this news article.
10/09/2023Short article discussing evidence for origins of maths in movement and experience of place. Foraging is linked to the emergence of consciousness.
10/09/2023Fascinating history lesson about the first Britons, but going back through geological time. We live in a marginal land populated by waves of migrants between ice ages going back 900.000 years.
10/09/2023Follow up on work on the intelligence of the Corvids. Research on BBC Science site.
31/08/2023The arts can help …
30/04/2023Your daily dose of poetry, performance and politics.
28/04/2023Photo by Chris Reed
27/04/2023We are all perverted by language
26/04/2023Indian Ink & Acrylic by Chris Reed
25/04/2023A poem about crows outwitting man
25/04/2023A poem about the sociability and song of the crow. By Chris Reed.
24/04/2023Companion to the James Bridle interview post below, about different kinds of intelligence. Supports the idea of intelligence and recursive thinking, mindsight, emerging out of sociability.
24/04/2023Link to interview by artist and activist James Bridle. Photo of adult otter footprint by River Irthing, Cumbria,UK. by Chris Reed.
24/04/2023Brief article by a neuroscientist about imagination.
23/04/2023Photo by Chris Reed
23/04/2023Link to great article about the power of the blank page.
23/04/2023An artwork exploring recursion.
22/04/2023Rilke quote
22/04/2023Image – Snow covered trees Chris Reed 2023 i/i
21/04/2023The first coder on creativity.
12/04/2023A poem about ripples of agency and intelligence
02/04/2023Wandering about, I found a little treasure, an image worth a thousand words…
30/03/2023Great deep dark techno track to drum to, get lost in and alter states…
29/03/2023Mos Def’s story of the con, the crime, and the experience of learning from misadventure.
29/03/2023An aside about Tricksters, recursion, Raven, Coyote and the wise fool.
26/03/2023Introducing a project researching the concept of recursion in experiential learning and art making.
22/01/2023My follow up artwork exploring my walk on New Years Day
13/01/2023Describing doing art through art
12/01/2023Please visit my new newsfeed
11/01/2023Got the words out of my head today.
11/01/2023Words busted my head today…
11/01/2023Changing research into experience.
02/01/2023A walk on New Years Day turned into prosepoetry and reflection
18/03/2021A reflection on social distancing and an art as research performance I did a year ago to explore what the then new phenomena was like.
02/03/2021Making a map to express some ideas and experiences of the Solway.
02/03/2021An exploration of how human activity can take undifferentiated space and make it into a place with a meaning and a function.
11/02/2021A last word. This came out of the first few lines. Not sure what it means, except I will return to the Solway
10/02/2021A return to look at the art as experiential learning model befor moving on.
02/02/2021The second in a series of posts with words by poets and writers who know the Solway.
01/02/2021The penultimate post for the Solway Walk series about the human ecology of the place.
27/01/2021The first in a series of posts with words by poets and writers who know the Solway. This one is by author Helen Cox
23/01/2021A reflection of using photography to express experience of place. I examine ways this is valuable and ways this is limited.
21/01/2021Some ideas about the use of art making and the art objects as modes of enquiry or knowledge production. Attached document available for download below.
19/01/2021Introducing Augusto Boal’s ideas about performance as a creative space for experiential learning.
17/01/2021Reflecting on my experience of my Solway Walk.
15/01/2021About the actual experience of walking an image of an idea on a beach on the Solway Firth.
14/01/2021Images introducing the Solway.
13/01/2021Introducing walking an image of an idea of experiential learning.
24/07/2020Ideas about imaginative mapping of place as artform.
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