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Tag Archives: Philosophy

‘When we describe colour, we are poets’; an interview with artist and paint manufacturer, Michael Harding

January 20, 2018by harrietbottom 2 Comments

Read about someone who creates colour, talk about its essence Michael Harding is a paint manufacturer and handmakes artist’s oil paints. I met him at a launch for his new […]

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Aesthetics, Art, Artist Interviews, Interviews, Philosophy, Thoughts

Of all the galleries in Paris

May 20, 2017by harrietbottom 2 Comments

I’ll start with a traditional French coffeehouse and the story of a Mexican surrealist artist. A young English debutant who fled her nouveau-riche family to pursue art and a love affair […]

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Aesthetics, Art, Exhibitions, Thoughts, Travel

Home Blindness

April 16, 2017by harrietbottom Leave a comment

Taking the time to be inspired and set resolve. I’ve spent three months writing, re-writing, re-re-writing, going backwards as I chip away editing various blog drafts. Thinning my once animated […]

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Philosophy, Thoughts

Beautifully Unique, Pressed Flower Phone Cases

August 30, 2016by harrietbottom Leave a comment

As our phones have grown attached to our palms and synchronised to our thumbprints, it’s inevitable that they should become an extension of their owner’s individuality too. No one’s boobs, knees, […]

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Aesthetics, Art, Artist Interviews, Crafts, Designer Interviews, Fashion, Interviews

Colour in a ‘techno-scientific world’

February 23, 2016by harrietbottom 3 Comments

Between March and October, 2015, Christina Mackie’s nine-metre-high silk nets hung in Tate Britain’s Duveen Gallery. The pastel, soft fabric trickled down into pools of dense, crystallised dye, whilst a […]

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Aesthetics, Art, Exhibitions, Philosophy, Thoughts

Is your experience of colour different to your colour vision?

April 12, 2015by harrietbottom 7 Comments

Take #thatdress… If one person sees blue and black in the photograph and another sees white and gold, can they both be right with their colour experience? I’m sitting here […]

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Aesthetics, Art, Artist Interviews, Interviews, Philosophy, Thoughts

Plato and philosophical progress

November 12, 2014by harrietbottom Leave a comment

…Is ancient philosophy still relevant in 21st-century life? Why didn’t Plato know that slavery was wrong…?  As part of Bristol’s Festival of ideas, Rebecca was invited to the Watershed to […]

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Interviews, Philosophy, Thoughts, Writer Interviews

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