I’ve Had Another Idea

– Sparrowfall (2), 2015 –

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There is a wilful lemming–like persistence in remaking past successes time after time. They can’t make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it’s a disaster. Why don’t we remake some of our bad pictures – I’d love another shot at ‘Roots of Heaven’ – and make them good?

– John Huston

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Ashley Lily Scarlett and I have started a new blog called Between Scarlett and Guest. It’s a dialogue in pictures. You can read/ eavesdrop on the conversation here.

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I’ve Had An Idea

– Sparrowfall (1), 2015 –

– Sparrowfall (2) (work in progress), 2015 –

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Ashley Lily Scarlett and I have started a new blog called Between Scarlett and Guest. It’s a dialogue in pictures. You can follow the course of the conversation here.

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Work: a collaboration between Richard Cooper-Knight and Richard Guest

Richard from  and I have just completed our twenty-ninth collaboration. If you would like to see the results, please visit Richard’s superb blog, CK Ponderings or click on the sneak preview above.

Commitment: a collaboration between Richard Cooper-Knight and Richard Guest

Richard and I have just completed our twenty-first collaboration. If you would like to see the results, please visit Richard’s superb blog, CK Ponderings.

Here’s a sneak preview of my image to whet your appetite…

City Life

Untitled digital photograph, 2012

Untitled digital photograph, 2012

Untitled digital photograph, 2012

Untitled digital photograph, 2012

Untitled digital photograph, 2012

Untitled digital photograph, 2012

Untitled digital photograph, 2012

The above were all taken in London, UK in April 2012.

City Life is a 1996 album by the American composer, Steve Reich. Like all of his work, it’s worth checking out if you’re into repetitious, minimalist, modern composition.

According to Glass: A Biography of Philip Glass by Robert Maycock, in the early days when Steve Reich and Philip Glass couldn’t make a living from music, they started a removal firm. When they weren’t shifting stuff, they hung out with the artists Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Chuck Close, Sol Le Witt and Carl Andre. Not surprisingly this, and not the removals, is where Steve’s break came from – artists would invite him to their exhibition spaces to soundtrack their work.

I love these kind of stories, and always wonder what Steve and Philip talked about in the van.