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Negative
An emotional response to unsettling circumstances. To be continued ....

wyldeoakeartistry
May 11 min read


Evanesce
To disappear and to be forgotten .... a shadow of a former self.... to be completed .....

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May 11 min read


Perspective
Ongoing investigations and explorations of how chopping into the original photograph, at least metaphorically, and combining with either...

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Apr 305 min read


Disengage
To disengage from something/someone through conscious choice. The choice of title reflecting the intentional decision to randomly divide...

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Apr 287 min read


Discomposure
..."the state of being disturbed or agitated" (Google) Is this the correct name or description of this new self-portrait? or does a...

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Apr 276 min read


Depletion
.... a title or a state of mind? " a reduction in something, or the act of reducing it:" (Collins, s.d.) Alternative definitions also...

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Sep 10, 20249 min read


Reduction
" the simplification of a subject or problem to a particular form in presentation or analysis " (Oxford Languages, s.d.) A word that...

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Aug 11, 202411 min read


Disrupting realism....
Disruption How do I do this? How far do I go? What do I want to say? To reveal or to conceal? To disrupt or to emphasize? Self or...

wyldeoakeartistry
Jul 23, 20248 min read


Other
Before I focus on the subject of this blog I want firstly to record the changes that it is my intention to make between the first and...

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Jul 15, 202412 min read


Agency
"....agent is a being with the capacity to act, and ‘agency’ denotes the exercise or manifestation of this capacity." (Schlosser, 2019). ...

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Jul 7, 20246 min read


Becomings
The blank page is no more. It is becoming. It is intra-action. Self. Do I need to write more words? do these words describe the process...

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Jul 2, 20245 min read


The blank page
The blank page' ... otherwise known as 'Procrastination'! I find myself a question, and being unexpectedly philosophical - what does the...

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Jun 30, 20245 min read


Sometimes life throws surprises.... fungal style!
Happy New Year to one and all - albeit a little belatedly! Diary date - 21st January 2024: fungal book week 6 ...... and how on earth...

wyldeoakeartistry
Jan 24, 20248 min read


We start again ..... a new book has begun...
Finally, the harvested oyster mushrooms (pleurotus ostreatus) were removed from the back of the fridge where they had been sitting for...

wyldeoakeartistry
Dec 11, 20236 min read


What does sustainability and ecologically friendly mean to WOA?
This is a blog that has been playing on my mind a little of late particularly due to the rise in sustainability as an important aspect...

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Dec 7, 202311 min read


Delayed update to the 'book' ....
Okies so this blog should have been written about a month ago ... and the month before that .... oops! The reason for the delays is...

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Dec 5, 202313 min read


Pushing boundaries and taking risks ....
This blog post is in response to the same title posed by an artist, Laura Pollak, in a social media group. At the time of reading I was...

wyldeoakeartistry
Sep 25, 20237 min read


Book update ..... day 18 ....
Idealistically I should have written this update around day 14 but time seems to have run away with me recently but also the call of...

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Sep 7, 20233 min read


Contextualising the book .....
This journal entry is leaning towards a more academic/critical analysis style as this is something I have become used to due to my time...

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Aug 27, 202313 min read


"Because we can....."
The most common answer given to a social media question of why do people pick mushrooms to identify them and one that I have find smacks...

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Aug 24, 20235 min read