Had my mother lived, she would have been 88 years old today:

The morning after the night before. The studio requires a thorough dust, vacuum, and tidy. In so doing, I purge and prepare — at one and the same time cleansing the working environment of the previous project and making it ready for the next. While rearranging my plan chest, I came across a notebook which was kept during the earlier Pictorial Bible projects:

And, a drawing made of me at work during my third year BA Fine Art studies at Clarence Place, Newport in February 1981. Kate Hodges is the draughtswoman. She was studying graphic design at the time, on the floor below. (Fine Art and Graphic Design were deliberately kept a part. Fine Art was on the top floor — closer to heaven):

And,  a small painting entitled ‘West Side’ (1983) made during my MA Visual Art studies, based upon recollections of an area in Blaina, South Wales, where my mother spent a great deal of her childhood:

Can the art one produced in an earlier period be connected with that made presently? Or is the essence of one’s past efforts always a part of whatever is done later on?

The decks are scrubbed. Everything must be restored, ship-shape:

The studio is put to order (and, therefore, so is my mind), and readied for the development of ‘Graven Image III’, one of the next sound pieces the The Aural Bible II project:

4.00 pm. Now, to put entropy to rout in my study. 5.15 pm. Done! An evening with the family.