We're still around - it's just been difficult to find the cracks in the day.

Lots of reading (and looking & thinking) - Deleuze (the book on Francis Bacon in particular) which set me off to old catalogues of Bacon exhibitions and the Sylvester interviews. Then on to Cezanne. Then to my favourite British colourists: Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Howard Hodgkin. A colour buzz weekend.

I've also been going back to Derrida: Of Grammatology. The first section is so rich with ideas relevant to Riddles of Form. Another of those texts which I read with very different eyes and mind twenty years ago.

To come:

i) difficult questions concerning Riddles of Form - what is it? Or, rather, what will become of it?

ii) Quentin Blake and Deleuzean desiring machines



iii) BBC's 'New Tricks'



Tune in next time ...