Across The Tracks and Through The Looking Glass

The Inspiration of William Blake

2009.09.25

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Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

William Blake

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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

 

 

 

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The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.

William Blake

 

 

 

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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower

Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake

 

 

 

phosphenegeneration

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

William Blake

 

 

 

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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
William Blake

 

 

 

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
William Blake

 

 

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

William Blake

 

 

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet

William Blake

 

Prose by William Blake-1757-1827

All paintings by myself, many of these and many more will be displayed at my forthcoming exhibition 

Elate Brick Lane London E1-1

I wander through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every man,
In every infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:

London- William Blake

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London Handstyles: Book Launch Tags

2009.08.16

The London Handstyles book is out now featuring tags by a selection of London graffiti writers from the mid eighties to the present, many who were considerably more prolific than myself. The launch party was on Friday in Rarekind Gallery below Chrome and Black graffiti art supplies shop on Bethnal Green Road by Brick Lane.

It was great to meet certain influential oldskool legends for the first time and to hook up with old friends.

The book is for anyone who wants to know more about the roots of the movement, reminisce about the mad old days or learn how to bomb their name effectively. Here’s a few shots from the party- I’ve posted pics of the handstyles rather than the heads who write ‘em.

 

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Buy your copy and see pages from the book here

Andy.Seize Brick.Lane bullying Chrome.and.Black Consciousness DozeWRH East.London Elate Elate.Graffiti Envy Exhibitions Fuel Graffiti Graffiti.Kings Hall.Of.Fame Jon.Hammer Keen One Legal.Wall London.Graffiti London.Graffiti.Writers london.handstyles London.Street.Art.Design lowbrow LSD.Mag Mutate Britain Mutoid.Waste.Company oil.painting Oldskool.Graffiti.Artists One Foot In The Grove Outsider.Art Painting.In.The.Sun Painting.On.Canvas Paintings.for.Sale pop.surrealism Prime Robbo RobboWRH Skore Steampunk street.art tags Urban.Visionary Visionary.Art West.London Westway

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Mystic Gems for the Western Snack Palate and Beyond

2009.07.30

 

I’ve started some new canvases, based on some old ideas. Some of these are mutating and jumping off onto paper into graffiti outlines.

rant begins after the jump….

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