Twitter tweets for 2007-04-20

  • just got up, made breakfast, waiting for Shi to finish in the bathroom #
  • going to college to work on creative journal, then shopping #
  • wow, lovely lunch made by shi! some coffee and then back to work #
  • adding drop-downs menus to the sidebar of my blog, to save space #
  • been out for a walk, looking for an ice-cream van, but no luck. shame! #
  • flagged down an ice-cream van outside our house, enjoying a 99 with nuts #
  • bored of tino sehgal now #

Twitter tweets for 2007-04-19

  • sitting in the back garden, taking a break from writing essays, enjoying the sun #
  • trying to decide what is the best exhibition i’ve ever seen #
  • just back from Blackheath looking at SPAN housing #
  • finished my second philosophy essay! break-time! #
  • eaten shi’s lovely dinner, waiting for coffee to brew now #
  • starting core course essay, hope to finish by sunday #
  • writing about the artist tino sehgal #
  • can i somehow relate sehgal’s work to the philosophy of deleuze and guattari? #
  • skyping jon in nz #

BLOG—Two Years Old Today!

. . . and what a couple of years it’s been!

When I began posting to this blog it was because I was bored with my life and wanted to start developing an interest that to lead on to bigger things. The writing served this purpose for me and blogging seemed a good way of forcing myself to practice this.

To begin with the posts were sporadic and varied, covering anything and everything that I thought was interesting. As time went on the writing became a bit more concentrated on the art side of things, moving away from technical concerns, this also matched changes in my work situation. In 2006 I left work and started college, taking the Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Art History at Goldsmiths College in London, so not only did I stop working and returned to education, but I left my home in Cambridge and moved back to London.

The course has possibly been the best move I have ever made, although I still feel that I have long way to go to actually realise much of the potential that could come from it.

However the greatest thing to come out of this year has been meeting my fiancé, Shi Li. To be fair, nothing else matters quite so much to me as this. I have found love when I had more or less given up on it, and she has completed my life to this point and allows me to go on to the next stage in marriage and in work.

I feel that I can do anything.

Here’s to another two years, and many, many more!

Engagement Rings

Shi and I are engaged!

Yesterday was our 4-month anniversary and we decided that we should make our intentions official before Shi goes back to China on the 2nd of May. So yesterday was spent running round London looking for rings.

We are commissioning a custom-made engagement ring from Amanda Doughty, a friend of mine, but that won’t be ready for a few weeks so until then we’ve got two gold bands to have something to show.

This is the most amazing time of my life! Thank you Shi for accepting my proposal.