Category Archives: Stuart France

Contrary Appearances…

* Most traditional mythologies, the world over, treat of a ‘Divine Brew’ or intoxicant. * The Greek Gods and Godesses had their ‘Ambrosia’, The Vedic Indian Divinities their ‘Soma’, and so on… * In many instances this liquid, for such … Continue reading

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Reflections…

* The single note to a symphony. A fracture to the form. One outcome amid a range of possibilities. * How the variation chases the theme, and each colour its true hue… * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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Field of Nine…

* Why is the Octave so important? * Because it is simultaneously both the end of one thing, and the beginning of another.” * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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Spirit of Place…

* This notion, in the vague form in which it as come down to us, is probably more easily accessible, or, as some might have it, ‘fluffier’. * Still, few would deny that places can have atmospheres, Continue reading at … Continue reading

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Stone of the Night…

* You are a passenger… You stay under glass… You are driven through the city’s ripped back-sides. You leave the city’s ripped back-sides on a road which snakes through low, rough, foothills. Far on the horizon a solitary fin-shaped peak … Continue reading

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The Enormity of Life…

* We do not ordinarily confine ourselves to the present moment. * It is not actually possible. * But neither do we extend ourselves much before and beyond it. * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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Long-Sight…

  * Something of the unseen beyond can be gleaned from consideration of the human visage. * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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Functions in Time…

* The effects of the past on the present can be recognised in the unconscious persistence of our earliest psychological impressions. * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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The Singularity of Days…

* Everyone knows what a winter’s day looks and feels like. * Even if they have never experienced one. * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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Cryborg…

* When, O’ when will we learn? * Pathologies are not people. * Neither are robots, nor automatons. * Count Jack Black Reblogged from France and Vincent

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