Back in the day how the garden planter looked. It was replaced by a hellebore which dies when I was abroad. Need to go to the garden centre with T to buy yet another. There's a message in there somewhere! #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #ferrisphotos #metaphorsaplenty

In The Picture. Better hurry up now. Thinking about those I lost contact with: Julian Braidwood, Nigel Brittain, Keith James, and so on, and social media fails to make the links! #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty #frustration

Communism. Might grab a Turkish delight before I go out. I do what I want in retirement, but it's a struggle most of the time. Artemis press conference. Bit glib sometimes. #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #mixedmedia #metaphorsaplenty

Really on it yesterday. I got SEVEN notifications. Almost made it. Decisions about when a picture is finished bothering me this morning. I am doing a large version of a stolen work, but have begun to alter its shape. #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #frustration

House Boy. I adore pizza, and I love repurposing the packaging they used to come in. I now rely on th authentic variety at 'Giovanni's' in town. The 'house' here is a boarding school thing. #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #nostalgia

To 'celebrate' my reaching that awful milestone. I was hoping that the new model might have fixed another date to come pose, but no such luck; then I was born under an inauspicious star. Believe me! #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #mixedmedia

Boy and Biomorph. Rubin would have it that the latter characterises BOTH branches of Surrealism, the abstracted and the veristic. Have been doing them since I was 18. Weird, eh? #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #mixedmedia

Blue Arrow. Just opened up a sort of forgotten folder. I used to work as a casual for a company called that, though the meaning is more oblique. About to have second breakfast - a loaded brownie from the deli! #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty #mixedmedia

Sculpture Gallery. My brother-in-law threw out most of my previous work. Some might be reconstructed, but doubt it. That'd involve money and assistants. It's all just too much! #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #drawing #frustration

Some Planets. Watching a vid on FascistTube yesterday, stating that one orbit in the solar system travels at 47km/sec. Feels like the earth is doing the same, but it's a metaphor. #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #abstraction #mycottenham

And here after the fall of ordure. But almost everyone bumbles along as if the end of everything was not on its way. And it's not just the fools like Trump and his blind followers. The earth is poisoning itself. #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #frustration #mycottenham

Skins. Reminds me of school. PE would have one team play with vests on, one bare-chested. Can't imagine that happening now. Far too suspect! #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty

Panurge. Today I have been painting on top of a large piece of corrugated card packaging. Curved surface with gel and emulsion on top. Looks like rain out there. #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty

Gorilla. Only made 2 pics today, but then there are a few under way too. 'Our Ancestors' by Calvina has started really well. Long time since I read anything by him, theough loved him in late adolescence. #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #mycottenham #skull

Dandelions have an interesting name in French. I was always told as a child not to pick them because I'd wet the bed. Never happened, but there you go. Loved 'The Dying of the Loght' by Michael Dibdin. #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty

There is a degree to which taxidermy in museums is a little non-you? Posted a question on fb: Have you been refused by Cambridge Drawing Society? Hoping to stage a Salon des Refuses. Let's see what happens? #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #mycottenham #museum #zoology

I got to he moon before they did. Ok, it's foam in the washing-up bowl, Still no idea why he different froth forms depending on he ration of Fairy to water, and maybe the dirtiness of that water? #theferrisfiles #ferrisphotos #mycottenham #meaphorsaplenty

Ukraine has slipped into the background because of the obscenity of Iran, so thought I better bring it back into focus. Poster bought in Moscow in 1977, damaged by additions. Time for Tutti Frutti on Rai. #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty #war

An Artist. The padded spport has 'No.1' subtly printed white on white. Van Gogh or Joseph Beuys? Or me. Never really been one for hats, ut when it's so dashed cold I have to don the bobble. Reading another Dibdin at the mo. #theferrisfiles #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham #frustration

Capricorn's Daily Song. If I try to work out other possible meanings for CDS, I coe up with weird combinations, especially in that regular waking-up at about 4.00 in the morning! I was born in January, so this works? #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty #frustration

Snowman. Will have to go out. No cereal in the house. Putting off the Tesco order as long as I can. Money down the drain for Coincil Tax and Cambridge Drowning Society. Sorry.. I mean 'Drawing.' #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #nostalgia #metaphorsaplenty

The Boxer. Look at that damn sky again: it's like a snow-filled slab. Spring has sprung, but I see few signs. Astrology said the first 4 months would be awful. Hoping they're right and it'll get better? #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty

School Shower. My goodness. A boys secondary with open Spartan 'facilities.' I was shy, some weren't. If I had my time again I would be able to stare and assess. Oil pastel and ink on paper. #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #nostalgia #mixedmedia

Probably part of the Endymion-themed works. 9 more examples of what CDS could stand for to find. Not sure if I'll use all of them. Have NOT used Google, dictionaries or AI. Lie awake inventing. May offer a competition and prize? #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #nostalgia

Kunstwollen. My ex, half German, half South African, said this wasn't a word. Erwin Panofsky coined it, and it is sometimes rendered as 'inner necessity' in English. Badly. But anyway... off to the Zoology to sketch. #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #nostalgia

Panurge. Listening to the report of art thefts in Parma. Proof, if proof needed, that it's never about beauty.Money is more important in the art world. Has been for decades. I'd like some of it! #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #metaphorsaplenty #mycottenham

Doing batches of 6 on each of my platforms, but not sure if I can sustain this much longer? This harps back to the '70s, when it all started go wrong, but then hindsight is a double-edged sword. #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #frustration #mixedmedia

The Grappling Hook. I am fascinated by wrestling, but have never been to an actual match. Mason does it, so maybe one of these days...? Rai News24 talking about Trump. Wish the world would settle. #theferrisfiles #mycottenham #frustration #drawing

The Mechanism. The eminences grises who run the show secretly while the rest of us play in the dark is shown like this. Going to try to NOT go to the deli today. One piece of cake left, and 3 chocky bickies. #theferrisfiles #mixedmedia #mycottenham #metaphorsaplenty

Winter pond. I tend to hit a good way to express myself, do a group, then move on completely. Can be caused when someone gives me unwanted materials, or a Christmas present is art stuff. #theferrisfiles #artmaking #mycottenham #nostalgia