Treacle Dream
I’d stopped drinking strong coffee last thing at night, thinking treacle and sugar sandwiches would be more interesting.
The Shingle Dance
The Shingle Dance revolves around the bizarre and traumatic rehabilitation of the dancer Max Helter, after the loss of his legs in a dreadful accident, He finds sanctuary in a long abandoned Life boat station situated in a cliff fringed cove. A vivid and violent interaction ensues, between the sea, land, and Max’s battered psyche. [...]
When I blow
When I blow my trumpet, I want you to run as fast as you can for the windmill. Rest assured, I’ll be right behind you.
Rat with a gun tableau created by Mikko Luoma
The Rat with the gun In truth, I know very little about the rat with the gun, But what I do know is this: They said it would only last for a few days, a week at most, but when the light failed, and the paint ran out, The maker, Mikko Luoma caught the night [...]
Orange Monkeys
Orange Monkeys are very dangerous creatures, that swing around in your dreams, and do lots of very bad things. I know because-
I think this is the Truth
I put the image and words together in 2008, after finding an old photo of my brother and friend playing on a breakwater somewhere in Scotland. my mother never told me where it was.
Bernie
Hey Ian! Just wanted to wish you a belated Merry Christmas! Just two days ago, I found out that “Bernie” was chosen as one of the best east asian albums of 2011 in Japan’s “Music Magazine”. Attached is the clipping, your artwork was mentioned as well, saying that the entire album had a very old [...]
W. G. Sebald Campo Santo
‘In the obsessive attempt to find reason for the animation of life, a world of images is divided into anatomical components. This is the operation of speech operating successfully.’ ‘All symbolism harbours the curse of mediacy . It is bound to obscure what it seeks to reveal’
Under Construction
The web monkeys are currently grafting on a new site for 2012. Please come back and visit soon
The Adventures of Bernie the School Boy | Joanna Wang
Album cover artwork for Joanna Wang / Sony Music 2011
Jacobs Lament
A Lemonade short in progress by Stijn Windig, Ian Miller and John Farah. Voice talent by Ian Champion! Watch Jacobs Lament here…
Quizzing Mr Whizzo | A conversation with Ian Miller
For those of you who are unaware of Ian Miller’s work he started his career over 40 years ago and has been a real force in the ‘Fantasy’ and storytelling genres. He has created two graphic novels: Luck in the Head, with co-author M. John Harrison (Victor Gollancz, 1991), and The City with co-author James [...]
Manchester 1957
My Aunty Minor had pestered my uncle Harry into buying her a sweet shop, so she would have something to do whilst he was away all week working in Blackpool. They had no children of their own, just a ginger cat called Homeless. My Mother was working at Kendal’s in Manchester, so after school I [...]
Falling Pandas
This is true story about longevity, chance encounters, and things gravitational. I was in a local pub a couple of weeks ago, Tuesday evening as I recall, standing at the bar waiting to purchase another pint of murky Thatcher’s traditional draft cider. It looks like something you might dredge from a polluted stream, or volcanic vent [...]
Blushed Line
Grey trees, blushed with blue, sit unsure, on the furrows ———of a charcoal curve. Pitt black lines, measured angles, touched, perhaps by damp, support this improbability. The trees waver Roots exposed And when the winds blows! The equation fails The fibres snap. Watch where the crows nest, Not here. They know the trees will fall, [...]
Cake House St James’s Park | February 1972
We met as arranged in the Park, at the Cafe near the Lake I didn’t want too, but I’d promised. Her nose was red, with the rasping wipe of paper tissues. Her voice nasal and congested with cold. Close up, she smelt of Honeysuckle. She took a table near the window, whilst I queued for [...]