Submitted by elnornor on Thu, 11/14/2019 - 12:09
Fusion Arts is an East Oxford-based community arts organisation, with a long pedigree of socially engaged arts practice going back to the 1970s. We worked together to run a series of events in Oct-Nov 2019 engaging local people in the CowleyRoad.org digital archive, which was funded by a community grant from Lankelly Chase. During this process I discovered the wonderful Fusion Arts archive: a number of boxes stuffed with old flyers, photos and newsclippings yet to be catalogued. So many of the Fusion Arts projects - dealing with access to the arts, gentrification and local planning - are more relevent now than ever. For the final workshop in our series I decided to open up and activate some of the archive material, using a remix approach to digitize graphic details and bring them to life in new designs.
Submitted by elnornor on Wed, 12/12/2018 - 23:35
Here is one page of scanned line drawings, freely available for download + re-use. Infinite variations and re-combinations. An austere minimalist experiment in the infinite abundance of open source art.
I will post my own variations on Mastodon as they emerge.
Submitted by elnornor on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 11:58
More open source illutrations, made with Inskcape, the open source vector drawing program.
Here are some drawings I made in the greenhouses at Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum, and some Inkscape illustrations made with them. When using open source software it makes sense to release the results freely too. Here are the drawings I used, in SVG format.
Submitted by elnornor on Sun, 07/15/2018 - 10:59
Makespace Oxford is a new affordable working & making space in North Oxford. We threw a fun launch party and open studios event in July 2018 to welcome local people in and celebrate the official opening.
Submitted by elnornor on Sun, 09/10/2017 - 17:16
This is a new set of visual compositions inspired by watching drifting clumps of seaweed in Solva harbour. Multiple iterations and re-uses are possible.
Submitted by elnornor on Sun, 11/22/2015 - 16:11
For all my adult life, a half-rememberd building has haunted my memory. An old hotel, nestled in wooded cliffs above the sea. A hotel as they used to be, with tobacco smoke drifting from the snug in the entrance hall and the smell of tomato juice in the deep red Victorian carpets. A wooden cabinet behind the desk with its rows of keys, then a narrow staircase leading up to a corridor, and the Oscar Wilde Suite.
Submitted by elnornor on Tue, 06/23/2015 - 17:51
Spotted in the book market in Rotterdam.
Submitted by elnornor on Sun, 02/15/2015 - 14:54
You might have Fifty Shades of Grey chalked up as a sexist, badly-written, pathologising, heteronormative piece of gibberish. And you'd be right. However, should you feel like "doing a Zizek" on this bit of cultural inanity and justifying to your feminist mates why you should waste precious hours of your life reading/watching this nonsense, here are some ideas...
Submitted by elnornor on Wed, 07/09/2014 - 18:02
Submitted by elnornor on Mon, 07/07/2014 - 16:39
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On my way back from Amsterdam yesterday I paid a quick hello visit to the 
I've just returned from a blissful week in the dazzling sun of NL. I visited the high-security underground base of the 
