Graphic Artist and Illustrator
out on the raggedy edge of Cornwall
contemporary art and art history, radical politics, science and technology, folk traditions, philosophy and music - classical, contemporary, jazz, electronic, folk, left-field, home-made
| Website | https://aaronbroadhurst.com |
| Pixelfed | https://pixelfed.art/aaron |
It was the Summer 1994.
I’d trashed my Apple Quadra and had work due at dawn.
At 2 in the morning, my girlfriend curled up asleep under my desk, with an appropriated 56K modem screaming, a stranger on the BBS, Cosmos London - from New Zealand - guided me through the dark and saved me. It felt intimate, like magic.
I’m chasing that spark again on Mastodon, Pixelfed, and the IndieWeb.
It’s slow. I'm shy.
But we don’t have to be so fucking passive.
Read it here
"could a more authentic PM revive Labour's appeal?"
Err ... No. (in my nephew's beautifully broad Macclesfield accent)
Authentic is as authentic does - Starmer Version 7.4 is still in alpha.
Critics "chastened"?
FFS - they living in La-La Land? - WYSIWYG!
Vocally defend Labour values?
What Labour values?
The man has none - at all.
Not mine.
Some people are delusional and still successful - successful and still sad fucks.
Enough already.
When will they grow up?
Dance Macabre
Just found this doing some more house-keeping.
Caught on Google Street View.
Looking at the date on the Google Maps, I think I was thinking about Covid but it could easily apply in a more metaphorical sense to a government which condones genocide or one which is dead before its time.
#ContemporaryArt #Art #PoliticalArt #ArtAndPolitics #ArtHistory
4/4
But I was playing a part.
Why have we helped to build a world where we worry about these things and they do not?
Where they feel the rules don't apply to them.
Looking at a photo of Journalist Emily Maitlis and Peter Mandelson, all I can think is that they think they live in a different world - and perhaps they do.
And she's "shocked". Hmmm ...
And I haven't reread this - so maybe I'm finally learning.
Photo credit: Alan Davidson/Shutterstock
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear scumbag
Happy birthday to you!
It's childish - I know
I'm ill and in bed all day - feeling sorry for myself.
Couldn't resist.
Sorry.
photo credit: REUTERS/ Toby Melville
Pensans Morris dancing on the threshold of the Other World.
Liminal.
In Penwith you get used to seeing people dissolving into their daemons or the other way round.
Not just for summer and not for the faint-hearted.
#FolkMusic #FolkTraditions #MorrisDancing #Cornwall #Penwith
I suppose it's a bit like moving house - specifically that bit where you're unpacking and find a stack of photos that you recognise but don't remember.
A folder of images I'd uploaded to Instagram.
My wife dances with Pensans Morris - I'm just a fan with a camera. Lovely to share in the oxytocin.
In the studio with the music up loud to crowd out the fear, I dance.
But not in public.
I envy the bliss, ego-loss, connection - the joy.
Phil and Sophie at practice
Finally made the move away from Big Social Media. Feels good.
Plan is - Website portfolio and blog first - here for words and Pixelfed for images of work.
I’ve back-filled some stuff for context and will be posting there from now on.
Weirdly surprised that the experience was genuinely affirming - gave me a quiet sense of pride.
If you’d like to follow my work, you'll find me here:
https://pixelfed.art/aaron
I'd love you to join me on this new, and very scary, adventure in the Fediverse.
Lovely to be invited, as Lord and Lady Montol, to the St Ives Feast Night Guizing by Admiral Hake and the Scaleybacks of Hakeybay on Monday.
More than 40 days and forty nights of rain, but the skies cleared and the stars shone on the revellers who took the town by surprise but won so many hearts and minds.
We all had a beautiful evening - so great to get the Tribe back together again - to carry the fire.
Still a little the worse for wear 2 days later.
Just published a new post on my site: Old Master Remixes
So much of my work, our work, is a conversation with the past — borrowing visuals … but also ideas, hopes and fears and quietly but firmly arguing back, speaking confidently to now and into the future.
Voices murmur and echo round my studio - images flicker in my peripheral vision.
But art is our only real hope for time-travel.
Read here:
https://aaronbroadhurst.com/2026/02/old-master-remixes/
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