Yesterday was the hottest day in the history of the World.Tomorrow, I fear, will be an even hotter hottest day The hot hot hot nights in between the hottest days give you no time to breathe no time to rest no time to count our dead. 66,000 dead from heat last year in Europe. Many more …
Shape Open 2023 has the theme Open All Hours and this above is my submission.For several decades I’ve been Open All Hours to a torrent of diagnoses and disabilities. Even with the Social Model, each new diagnosis needs time, both practically and emotionally. Time for the worry that inevitably comes alongside an uncertain future with degenerative diseases. Time …
There are lots of free and freely available air pollution monitoring systems that could tell you.Before you choose which system is best for you, please remember that there is no safe level of air pollution.The English guideline levels are set at much dirtier – which means riskier – levels than those from the World Health …
Theatre Deli are making a tarot deck and asked me to contribute some of my art.I told them I don’t believe in tarot. And they said: we don’t either, we just want to make some art Which of course I’m up for!I chose to do the Moon card. Apparently, the moon “is a card of …
Indoor air pollution is “typically around six times worse than outdoor air pollution, even in major cities“.Most people spend most of their time indoors. And those at most risk from air pollution – children, and people with pre-existing conditions – spend even more time indoors. But there’s much less advice about indoor air pollution. Partly …
Our London Climate Action Walk air quality walk ended at the Dickens Museum – on the left above:Image above right shows the nearby Airscape monitor – results below: This location was partly chosen because of the dirty air exhibition on there at the moment.Bleak house was set in the dense dirty fog of Victorian London: …
My role is much more listening / influencing than ‘doing specific things’. But here are some of my specific festival outputs. After my comments initiated the festival, my first input as a curator was to say: We must start as we mean to go along – by listening to and hearing the diverse voices of …
I want to be clear that my disabilities – like many other people’s – are not static. And that I’m much more than my diagnoses.See what I can and have created!Look at what else I am!But I also want to be clear about the uncertainties I live with. Is this me? This image started as …
Camden is rethinking our local statues.We were asked to think about some of the statues – and also think what we would truly like to commemorate.I couldnt go to the first session as the venue is not accessible.So that’s my first idea: get accessible! Lets make venues accessible – and then commemorate accessibility! We focussed on …