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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I’m quite interested in what you’re potentially doing here.

    You’ve posted a few over the last few days, all very minimal, small range of colours, simple forms, quite sparse composition.

    They’re all (I think?) watercolour based - though being used in fairly bold, fairly solid flat planes of colour, rather than the thin, watery washes traditionally associated with the medium. A couple of them have an interesting ‘cracked surface’ texture in the paint.

    They seem like a set of watercolour explorations or experiments - though your motivations are unclear.

    So… tell us a little about what you’re trying/thinking/doing/interested in/working towards etc (it doesn’t need to be in ‘fancy art language’) :)









  • Sadly it’s not just inflexibility of Universal Credit - the base rate of Universal Credit isn’t high enough anyway, but you’ve also particularly got elderly people on state pension only, people with disabilities and people with children.

    Surprisingly, the majority of food bank food apparently goes to households with at least one person in work - though this might not be “old style” work where you have set hours and wages and rights, but instead “zero hours” or “flexi hours” or “our company considers you self employed” etc.

    Huge increases in gas costs are one of the biggest contributors - children, the elderly and the ill couldn’t manage to just switch the heating off all winter. Ridiculous house price/rent increases are also a massive factor.

    I’m also a little unsure about a nationalised supermarket - but there are probably some solutions in this direction that would work.