At this time of year many people are setting out to improve and to change themselves. We don’t often think about why this is. We often hear things about new beginnings and fresh starts but why is it a fresh start? Is it not the case that the New Year marks a death of sorts […]
I have recently read a number of plays by the British play write Tom Stoppard. If I am honest I had not heard of him or his work until watching the BBC Imagine… documentary about his work and life. His work is funny and absurd in many ways. My focus on Heidegger’s philosophy led me […]
Can artists only make two albums that can be held up as masterpieces or great works of music? Two classics. If we look at those who are heralded as geniuses within music there is a trend of those who died young. They are those who have had short careers and have released few albums. Their […]
The rise of posthumous bio pics in the recent years is signs of our inability to think of the future. Our future is becoming the death of our past replayed over and over. Relived. We relive all of it, even the death. Maybe as a way to desensitise us to our own death. Watching lives […]
There is room for the argument that dead artists impede more on there art than those who are alive. A lot of artists that are alive keep their process, sketchbooks and behind the scenes details private, whereas when people die these private collections and workspaces and houses are bought to the forefront as the last […]
Death is an odd phenomenon. It is so far removed from anything we can experience and ever really feel that it can only ever leave a void. There can be no understanding of it, and I think that any form of understanding would be detrimental. If we knew the feeling, we would never live because […]
Come Back To Earth 