- 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
- 30/07/2025Morning poem
- 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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