A proposal to initiate a movement to generate empathy for the victims of conflict in the hearts of humans, through the construction of monuments and memorials to past atrocities. A potentially global project to remember the victims, before we go to war again. We are in a new age where humanity has tamed nature, and…
I’ve been reading Starman (David Bowie biography by Paul Trynka) alongside Culture Theory, Popular Culture (by David Storey), where I’m reading about deconstructing text to discover the hidden meaning. We need to know the writer’s associations to deconstruct what the text meant to them. I searched the internet again, for hints about Bowie’s most enigmatic…
Poppy Day is coming! November 11 is the day in 1918 that World War One ended with the signing of a peace ‘armistice’. Millions of soldiers died. 11 November has become Remembrance Day, and in 1921, the British Legion started selling red poppies, to raise money for ex-servicemen and their families. The British Legion has…
07 July 2018. On the day after the opening of my show at Brighton University, I hosted an ‘Art Picnic’ on the lawn in front the University on Grand Parade. One focus of this picnic was the construction of a ‘Drone Shadow’, a full size outline of a Predator Attack Drone, such as those in…
My portfolio submitted in June 2018, in consideration for the MA award from Brighton University: AGM78 Russ Honeyman Portfolio June2018(v3)lr
5 October 2018. Below, I’ve included a link to the Daily Mail article of today’s date, about statues and memorials being defaced in South Africa. The photo above is particularly poignant, as it highlights the British colonial philosophy that the colonisers were humane people, bringing civilised values to a dark continent, here exemplified by concern…
Raphael by the Sea 