Welcome To My Blog

It is odd that this post, dated April 2025 welcomes readers to a blog that for all intents and purposes began in 2023, so allow me to explain.

My original Blogger blog ran from 2012 until I disabled it around 2021[1]. I enabled the blog function of my website[2] to use exclusively as a feature for my 2023 exhibition Adventures In Zoomorphic Idolatry, and it is this version of my blog that readers are able to access today.

The earliest post (February 2023) is labelled as 1, with successive posts up to 14 (March 2023): these are the 14 paintings featured in that exhibition, written months ahead and anticipating the QR codes attached to each painting in the physical show in July. Folks visiting that show could learn more about an artwork beyond the title placer[3] if they preferred.

The blog was initially curated specifically for that event and remained that way until 2024 when I made a post about a new work – The Sorrows Of Setken.

My newsletter The Parlour had taken over from blog writing in a sense, as I felt that a direct email to my reader’s inbox was a better way of controlling who gets to see what I do, and especially because I don’t have the likes of Google looking over my shoulder telling me what I can and can’t produce.

In 2025, I decided to make my blog accessible to all and included a link button for it on my website menu. The blog is convenient for discussing a painting where I feel the need to do so, often serving as a space for elaboration where newsletter space is limited[4].  

Unlike the previous blog which I had years to refine, this blog has parameters. It is a vehicle to:

·         discuss my paintings

·         elaborate on inspiration for my work

·         write about my eclectic past where it intersects with my practice (my “genesis” posts)

·         provide reference points to paintings, talks and documentaries

·         give background and voice to my Kemetic interests, which my art centres around

I try not to spend too much time online, so when I do I want it to be meaningful.

I hope this blog lives up to that.

[1] Problems emerged with the platform as Google increasingly interfered with it; with people reporting to me that they were unable to access, comment or find it, this presaged many of the issues we now face with corporations taking over the internet and mandating everything to their own agendas; their sexual content mandates affected my blog not because I had sexually explicit content, but some of my paintings that included gods with erect penises for example had to be labelled as such to meet their new guidelines and standards and created red flags with searches and accessibility

[2] Setken.com to which this blog is attached

[3] I found this innovation a great way of tracking which works people were the most interested in, and also tracking traffic into the exhibition space when I wasn’t there to monitor; in those posts references to the exhibition space are apparent, and I am leaving them intact as an artefact of that show

[4] newsletters by definition should be short and sweet and serve as a brief update, as opposed to a laborious trudge through data