SettingItStraight

I wish your Christmas tree would stay up all year
I wish we had a blanket bigger than the both of us
I wish your job made you happy every day
And I wish our pets would grow old with us.

I wish they never, ever cancelled Seinfeld
I wish D Boon didn't die but joined my band
I wish our parents could stay the age they are now
So when we got there we could tell them we understand

I wish foxes wore tweed jackets and polished shoes
I wish we could always have hot dogs for tea
I wish there was a god and that he would save your life
And while he was there, maybe he could save me.

TheDayAfterTheEndOfTheWorld

Living an American life up against an estate wall
slapping alleys, hospital light hallways
climb and rise, slipmat summer
stonegrey winter splinters
fall int he fall spring the spring
loose the latch and in
loose the latch and in.

TwentyEightMansions

Slow down, slow down my heart
It's not a race to the end I don't want to die

When I woke up there was your shirt on the back of my chair
Suggesting you were still in the house somewhere and
I could hear the kettle going downstairs & I
Realized there's no work today and
I met you last night in the usual place and your face
Was luminescent under the barlights
You came home with me and watched cartoons on the TV and it's
Only 57 days 'til Christmas

TheOnlyWayOutIsDown

They stick a needle the exact same size and length as a stick of rock directly into the base of your spine and then they suck out the insides of your bones.

ExAnimo

In the short corridor
I stepped forward
Slunched
Slipped my head gentle into the loop
And pulled back hard
Tightening.

ToWhomItMayConcern

 

Look, it's not that I don't care about you, I do, I just can't have a relationship right now. What we've got here is good-it's like, we hang out, we have loads of fun, there's no pressure and no, like, problems or anything.
yeah of course I do, you know I do. Just because I don't say it all the time doesn't...
I don't have a problem with that sort of thing. What can I say? I like women.
This is mental, you're being mental. Seriously you just need to calm the fuck down because this isn't attractive at all.
You know when I say I can't talk I mean it.
But I do see you. I do spend time with you.
I'm just trying to get off the phone. Say goodbye. Leave it like what? I'm fine.
I'm fine.
I'm fine.
I'm fine.
I'm fine.
You are so fucking stupid. Get out of my house.

we are syllagraphica

Michael & I started collaborating in early 2011... I've been taking street based photographs for what seems like forever & Michael had been writing poetry & lyrics for just as long. As admirers of eachothers work it seemed a natural progression to collaborate on a project that Michael entitled 'syllagraphica'.

Somtimes Michael will write in respose to my images, and sometimes he will give me pieces of text & I respond with a photograph. When the image comes first, I give Michael the title too. When the text comes first, sometimes it's the title, sometimes it doesn't need one.

We put on an exhibition in April 2011 in Lewisham, the opening night included framed pairings of prints & text & a projection piece, which was also shown at the FoxFest music & arts festival the following month. This blog aims to take the project further, a place to post our ongoing work and detail future exhibitions and events.

The next showing of our work will be at Reynolds Cafe in Charlotte Street [just around the corner from Goodge Street station] The exhibition will open on the 9th August. The cafe is gorgeous, as is the food, so if you're going to pay a visit, have a coffee and a piece of cake while you look at the exhibition.

There were 13 pieces in our original show, so I'm going to post one a day until the opening, followed by a brand new piece especially for the new show which will go online the day we hang the show, kinda like a sinister advent calendar... hope you can make it down to see our work at some point!


Anni & Michael