Stifling Heat

stifling heat
a shout goes up from
the PMU bar

Paul Conneally
Mouans-Sartoux
July 30 2015

Stacking Shelves

stacking shelves
the shop assistant plans
a picnic for two

Paul Conneally
Mouans-Sartoux
July 30 2015

from the ongoing series 'Lost in the Supermarket'

Under A Palm Tree

under a palm tree
the sound of a motorbike
and the smell of piss

Paul Conneally
La Croisette, Cannes
July 29 2015

Feet On Fire

That moment when you've been promenading up and down La Croisette for what seems like hours, your feet are on fire and to top it all your iPad starts playing up!

evening shadows
a seagull leaves it's mark
on my shoulder

Paul Conneally
Cannes 2015

Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games 2020 Logo Designs

Kenjio Sano's logo designs for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games 2020.

Pizza Van

Bourg-Les-Valance sits on the north side of the city of Valance and provides a handy stopover as we drive down L'autoroute de Soleil towards the Côte d'Azur.

The hotel we stay in is surrounded by hinterland discount shops, tool hire companies and light industry. It's surprisingly good and the restaurant is excellent. I give myself over to the will of the chef who for twenty-eight euro will contour up for me a 'surprise' three course meal. Neither he nor our waiter will tell me what to expect only that the chef will have a look at me and decide, from what he sees, the dishes that he will cook.

I turn out to be a starter of lightly fried sea bass fillets on a bed of mashed potatoes, a main course of duck slices in a pepper sauce with roasted Mediterranean vegetables and a dessert of shards of white and dark chocolate with pistachio ice cream. He was spot on.

after dinner walk
the light from the pizza van
draws in moths

Paul Conneally
Bourg-Les-Valance
July 26 2015

Panic Attack (Lost in the Supermarket)

panic attack
no organic potatoes
in aisle five

Paul Conneally

From the photographic series Lost in the Supermarket, Loughborough, 2014

Follow Your Heart

follow your heart
a portion of fish and chips
in the town square

Paul Conneally
Loughborough
July 2015

The Baker and The Biker

I’ve never been one for riding motorbikes but enjoy some of the imagery and mythology that surrounds them.

The crowded narrow roads in and around the towns of the Côte d’Azur seem ideal for two wheeled travel.

Motorcycles, motorbikes, whatever you want to call them, whiz in and out the often stationary cars, vans and lorries.

Sat in a traffic jam, sweat running down my temples, despite the air conditioning, I envy the motorcyclist weaving between the people carriers and Ferraris.

On foot, in search of a certain bar and bread, the motorbikes become an annoyance. Their noise and smell. The fear that one will fail to see me in its weave and knock me over.

such short shadows
the baker asks the biker
to remove his helmet

Paul Conneally

Antibes 2013

LA SCIMMIA SULLA SCHIENA - William Burroughs - book cover by MarioDelgado

LA SCIMMIA SULLA SCHIENA - William Burroughs

Book cover designed by Mario Degrada for the Italian translation of William Burroughs classic tale of drug addiction 'Junky'.

Degrada designed many wonderful book covers for Italian publishers Rizzoli.

To hear William Burroughs read the whole of Junkie click this link:
Junkie by William Burroughs

Newspaper Seller

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Newspaper Seller

It's good to see that despite the online proliferation of news there are still local newspapers and what's more local newspaper street sellers. This jolly chap is at the intersection of Loughborough's Market Street and Market Place. He sells just one publication the weekly Loughborough Echo. He doesn't shout out to passers-by to sell his papers but draws them in with his smile, a broad grin, and kind words.

local gossip
just when will the council
mow these verges?

Paul Conneally
Loughborough
July 16 2015

Still Waiting

Still Waiting

The sun is not out but the market is still too warm, too humid.

Sweat trickles down my back.

A man with Tourette's curses the air, marching up between fruit stalls and cheap fashion towards Loughborough's famous Sock Man sculpture.

Strawberries three punnets a pound.

still waiting
the pregnant woman mops
her brow with her sleeve

Paul Conneally
Loughborough
July 2015

Jacckson Pollock and his dog

Jackson Pollock and his dog Gyp.

SKEP hive mind - Loughborough University Fruit Routes 2015

Artist Paul Conneally during SKEP Loughborough University June 2015

SKEP

hive mind

Performative, Participative, Collaborative Installation

Anne-Marie Culhane and Paul Conneally

Fruit Routes Loughborough University

18th June 2015

We share our lives with and our very existence depends on the bees - a keystone species in the natural world.

Building on the tradition of Telling the Bees, where beekeepers informed the bees of significant events in their communities or lives, you are invited to share something of your personal thoughts on community, cooperation and the future of our relationship with the ecological community (animals, insects, plants).

Speak out loud

Share your thoughts in silence

Write in the book

Artist Anne-Marie Culhane during SKEP Loughborough University June 2015

SKEP is part of the ongoing Fruit Routes / Eat Your Campus work at Loughborough University in June 2015. SKEP was one element in a day of events and interventions coordinated by Culhane that included a wild tea party, visits to the campus apiary and an evening of moth catching and watching. SKEP offered a space for thought and quiet in the presence of a listener, SKEP, Culhane or Conneally sat passively, silent, wearing a traditional British woven basket beehive, a skep, on their head.

14 Nights in Carnac

14 Nights in Carnac
mixed media - book and oak leaves
Paul Conneally 2006

14 Nights in Carnac - a piece performed and made in July 2006. The artist spends 14 nights in Carnac famous for its megaliths its standing stones. He lives and sleeps below two oak trees. Each night reading sections of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-up Bird Chronicle plucking an oak leaf from the trees and placing it inside the book as a bookmark.

The experience exists as the book with the 14 leaves pressed inside it.

In 2007 images of the pressed leaves inside the book are transferred on to white ceramic bathroom tiles and form part of Conneally’s exhibition in Mile End Arts Pavilion ‘The Renewability’ curated by Tomomi Iguchi.

A. Laptev: We build from cardboard [Строим из картона] (1932)

A. Laptev: We build from cardboard [Строим из картона] (1932)

INVIGILATOR : DIGBETH

Thinking back to 'Invigilator : DIGBETH' discussions I am struck by oblique and direct references to boredom - the gallery invigilators job being referred to as sometimes boring.

When transposed to an outside space where the invigilator has to stand or sit and simply ‘watch over’ then the space and the action of simply watching over it sets up an interaction that is boring in such a way that it can transcend boredom if we let it… The space becoming bored of the invigilator throws up new facets new resonances between it and the 'watcher over’ the 'invigilator’ A couple of Invigilator:Digbeth participants said that they found the invigilating very zen like - another not at all - the invigilating passed-by with a contrived doing - a counting of and classification of vehicles passing through the invigilated space. Such actions are invoked by the space itself as it is watched over - after all it was only chance that the space invigilated happened to have cars passing through it - this counting this classifying borne out of the possibility of boredom.

“INVITE BOREDOM” - paul conneally 2008

Summer Shorts

In the hot afternoon it's good to escape into the shade of a city centre pub. A cool beer away from the hustle and bustle of the busy streets. Late enough to miss the lunchtime rush and too early for after work drinkers.

I sweat out a few thoughts.

summer shorts
the drunk in the corner
tells me he loves me

Paul Conneally
The Orange Tree
Nottingham
July 2015

This Pressing Heat

this pressing heat
a man with a sleeping dog
waves his taxi on

Paul Conneally
Leicester
July 2015

Tamara Karsavina - Ballerina

Tamara Karsavina
Born March 9,10, 1885, St. Petersburg, Russia--d. May 26, 1978, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Eng.

Anglo-Russian ballerina whose partnership with Vaslav Nijinsky in Mikhail Fokine's avant-garde ballets helped to revive interest in ballet in western Europe.