After reviewing my photography and looking at images I had not looked at for years, my re-viewing also took another retrospective perspective.

Years ago I became fascinated by the whole idea of DTP, Desk Top Publishing. In those days I had access to Adobe Pagemaker here now InDesign. I briefly had a part-time job as a magazine editor but around this time the scope to publish online became more easily available and I had various websites. Whilst I maintained an interest in magazines and paper based analogue communications, the world fell in love with the digital on-line world. Like painting, the death of the paper newspaper, the death of the analogue has been predicted for ages. See here and here. But vinyl is being sold in my local supermarket again. Maybe the analogue is not to dead. All that stuff we did years ago that we no longer do is maybe useful after all.

I love the interweb but at heart I am a group worker, a carer, a therapist. I like the hands on. I have an interest in the digital and invite discourse online, but the idea of ‘friends’ and followers online kinda always bemused me. I am 65, forgive me.

I have lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.

Joan Didion

My re-viewing has taken me back to inDesign. I reconnected and actually did some online (YootYoob!) training and now finally understand the power of the frame and its relationship with content for example, something that drove me mad before. As a professional trainer I should know better than to expect intuition to guide me.

My goal is to develop work with art-making locally and I am exploring making a free newspaper to be distributed locally to invite fellow travellers to join in an art-making journey as well as people joining an online conversation. The image I have is a kind of Art Fanzine. See here and here. In the second link I loved the simplicity of the little magazine made out of an A4 sheet. So… the possibilities are endless. I want a kind of slick looking A4 minimal magazine like this here with a clear narrative inviting people to use art making to promote their own health and wellbeing, but also I could make little fanzines to promote my website, designed to be a bit more rough and counter-cultural. I like graffiti art and particularly stickers, here but don’t really want to be breaking the law to promote my work.

So I love my online digital object, but I have reconnected with the analogue object. It feels oddly counter-cultural.