being and becoming in the world
To play this short film, please click here or on the image below. Filmed at Stirling castle, 29 January 2026 as the Monte Carlo Rally cars arrived. The song is … Continue reading Some secret shape of time [AUDACIOUS]
The RESISTANCE exhibition at Modern Two, Edinburgh. Do visit if you have a chance. The exhibition was conceived by artist and filmmaker, Steve McQueen. I have done my best to … Continue reading Modern Two: RESISTANCE photographs
On Sunday we visited Modern Two to see the RESISTANCE exhibition: How protest shaped Britain and photography shaped protest. What follows are a few photographs that I took at Modern … Continue reading R E S I S T A N C E
Please note: this is a FICTIONAL Society [no such Society of this name exists] Long ago, the editorial team that established the British Journal of Psychiatry chose to front-cover their … Continue reading The NEON Yellow Preservation Society [brand, business model and regulations]
This short, artistic film, shares, most briefly, thoughts on ‘institutional behavior’ [in nothing but the most general sense]. The voice is that of Richard Holloway, and is a short out-take* … Continue reading Outsider art
The following response, by Dr Rita Pal, was published online by the BMJ in 2001. In the 20 years that have passed, including the rise of social media, has the … Continue reading When the medical profession shuts down
This is one of three watercolours painted by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for The Magazine of April 1894. This was in the period after his graduation and his accompanying hand-written text … Continue reading Cabbages in an Orchard
By chance I recently came across this in the archives of the BMJ. It was published in the Materia Non Medica section of the 2nd March 1979: