Changing (challenging?) times

 The world of the internet is changing so fast that it is impossible to keep up. First, we "had" to be on Facebook, then LinkedIn, then Instagram ... at which point I gave up.  So, no online marketplaces, no random political statements, absolutely no instant messaging or Tik-thingy thank you very much.  What little online writing I do is on https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/mapping-on and my Instagram account is still (fairly) live. I am still here, still working, and trying not to post too much stuff which might be scraped off by artificial intelligence bots, or whatever they're called. Too late now, I suppose - A.I. is probably the only visitor to this site anyway.

In the real world, I'm still working with Printmakers Pushing the Boundaries. Our current exhibition is in Hay on Wye (Gelli Gandryll in Welsh) as "Printmakers in Focus", courtesy of Hay Castle Trust https://www.haycastletrust.org/current-exhibitions.aspx

I have also revived the deep mapping project of Bwlch y Ddeufaen, which will be exhibited "Ar y Ffram" at Galeri, Caernarfon in the autumn. Bwlch y Ddeufaen is a high pass through the hills on the North Wales coast: bleak, windswept and dominated by two line of massive electricity pylons, it is nonetheless of enormous historic importance. It has been a throughway for millenia, and was an important ritual landscape long before the Romans put their road to Caernarfon along its' path.  It narrowly escaped being chosen for the route of the A55 Expressway in the 1970s and access is still via twisty single track roads. There are stone circles, standing stones, a dolmen, ancient farmsteads and field markings. It is a very interesting place indeed despite its' desolate appearance. "To be continued", as they say, in my a-n blog (link above).

Bwlch y Ddeufaen