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Photo: Westerton Arms, Bridge of Allan
Yes, its countdown to Christmas and most people have already started. The really organised ones have Christmas “ done and dusted “ in November  with cards written and presents wrapped.
I have yet to start. Am I alone? 

Spent the day doing cyanotype printing ( see extra) following the one day workshop I attended some weeks ago.   Working under the supervision of the artist -led workshop it seemed so easy to use light to generate images. In practice it turned out to be much harder. .
Anyway, I did manage an image  of a hunting knife (see extra) bought some time ago  in Alaska while on a stopover to Japan. ( It was sold as a tourist item).  I used it in a text/photograph project during my first year at Glasgow School of Art. It was subsequently withdrawn from an exhibition, no explanation given, though I suspect it had something to do with the text accompanying it: “ getting ready for a night out in Glasgow”.

The college was sniffy about Glasgow’s knife culture and deemed it inappropriate.  But only a few days before I had been in a hardware store close to the college where a gang  of youths were fingering a rack of knives before making several purchases.