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Depletion
.... a title or a state of mind? " a reduction in something, or the act of reducing it:" (Collins, s.d.) Alternative definitions also...
wyldeoakeartistry
Sep 10, 20249 min read
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Reduction
" the simplification of a subject or problem to a particular form in presentation or analysis " (Oxford Languages, s.d.) A word that...
wyldeoakeartistry
Aug 11, 202411 min read
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Disrupting realism....
Disruption How do I do this? How far do I go? What do I want to say? To reveal or to conceal? To disrupt or to emphasize? Self or...
wyldeoakeartistry
Jul 23, 20248 min read
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Other
Before I focus on the subject of this blog I want firstly to record the changes that it is my intention to make between the first and...
wyldeoakeartistry
Jul 15, 202412 min read
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Agency
"....agent is a being with the capacity to act, and ‘agency’ denotes the exercise or manifestation of this capacity." (Schlosser, 2019). ...
wyldeoakeartistry
Jul 7, 20246 min read
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Becomings
The blank page is no more. It is becoming. It is intra-action. Self. Do I need to write more words? do these words describe the process...
wyldeoakeartistry
Jul 2, 20245 min read
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The blank page
The blank page' ... otherwise known as 'Procrastination'! I find myself a question, and being unexpectedly philosophical - what does the...
wyldeoakeartistry
Jun 30, 20245 min read
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Sometimes life throws surprises.... fungal style!
Happy New Year to one and all - albeit a little belatedly! Diary date - 21st January 2024: fungal book week 6 ...... and how on earth...
wyldeoakeartistry
Jan 24, 20248 min read
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We start again ..... a new book has begun...
Finally, the harvested oyster mushrooms (pleurotus ostreatus) were removed from the back of the fridge where they had been sitting for...
wyldeoakeartistry
Dec 11, 20236 min read
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What does sustainability and ecologically friendly mean to WOA?
This is a blog that has been playing on my mind a little of late particularly due to the rise in sustainability as an important aspect...
wyldeoakeartistry
Dec 7, 202311 min read
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Delayed update to the 'book' ....
Okies so this blog should have been written about a month ago ... and the month before that .... oops! The reason for the delays is...
wyldeoakeartistry
Dec 5, 202313 min read
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Pushing boundaries and taking risks ....
This blog post is in response to the same title posed by an artist, Laura Pollak, in a social media group. At the time of reading I was...
wyldeoakeartistry
Sep 25, 20237 min read
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Book update ..... day 18 ....
Idealistically I should have written this update around day 14 but time seems to have run away with me recently but also the call of...
wyldeoakeartistry
Sep 7, 20233 min read
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Contextualising the book .....
This journal entry is leaning towards a more academic/critical analysis style as this is something I have become used to due to my time...
wyldeoakeartistry
Aug 27, 202313 min read
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"Because we can....."
The most common answer given to a social media question of why do people pick mushrooms to identify them and one that I have find smacks...
wyldeoakeartistry
Aug 24, 20235 min read
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News catch up....
Not exactly the catchy title Wix suggests but a descriptive one nonetheless as this post purely catches up with what I've been up to .......
wyldeoakeartistry
Aug 21, 20235 min read
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Growing a book - from a book!
OK so now I have your interest - what on earth am I on about? ..... quite simply growing a fungal book from a fungal book albeit one...
wyldeoakeartistry
Aug 20, 20234 min read
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Walking with mushrooms
Wow when did this happen? I finished my MA in Fine Art after 2 years of part time on-line study with an amazing and supportive cohort of...
wyldeoakeartistry
Aug 8, 20233 min read
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5 May 2023 - news update:
I am trying desperately to get into the habit of writing more often so two posts in 5 weeks is at least a big improvement! However,...
wyldeoakeartistry
May 5, 20232 min read
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1st April 2023
Wow where did the last 6 months go? ........ I guess the answer is in developing new work through consolidating theoretical and visual...
wyldeoakeartistry
Apr 1, 20235 min read
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