‘One misty, moisty morning’, as Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span sang:

Drizzle grizzle!: This was fuzzy and diffused rain; more annoying and directionless than full-on precipitation. It gets under the umbrella, onto the specs, and into the clothes.

After a 9.00 am MA fine art tutorial at the School, I headed for the Old College for another:

11.15 am. Into the Tardis and back to the mothership, where I engaged one of our PhD fine art students, who’s on the last lap of their project. Following lunch, I descended the stairs into the bowels of the School and the printmaking rooms for a further PhD fine art tutorial:

The afternoon closed with a final MA fine art tutorial.

Some principles and observations derived from today’s pedagogical engagements:

• It’s the realisations that we arrive at by ourselves which lever the the most important and lasting steps forward in our work.
• Make time to reflect upon your work. Converse with it in solitude. There are things it wishes you to know.
• Your tastefulness wears the cloak of an ally, but is, in practice, a subtle foe.
• Inspiration may not be readily available. But application is always at hand and our command.
• Be decisive, determined, and dedicated. Much else issues from these attitudes.
• Letting others down is one thing; letting yourself down is quite another.
• Let the work determine its own course. It may lead to somewhere better than you were heading.
• Don’t despise an unproductive period in your work. It may be the matrix in which a major step forward in the future presently gestates.

Evening. I completed PDF-ing the final section of the booklet, while listening to my new copy of Public Image Ltd’s The Flowers of Romance (1981), which was released in the year that I graduated.