and because of the rain soon (in 1872) there will be flooding.
yesterday (today as was) a rainy horrific day.
horsemouth has prepared a mail art envelope now all he needs to do is make some art to go in it and put it in the post with a suitable address on the cover and some postage on it (optional).
on the back of the envelope he has put a quote about the purpose of mail art by loredana parmesani which he has edited slightly from the following;
'the purpose of mail art, an activity shared by many artists throughout the world, is to establish an aesthetical communication between artists and common people in every corner of the globe, to divulge their work outside the structures of the art market and outside the traditional venues and institutions: a free communication in which words and signs, texts and colours act like instruments for a direct and immediate interaction.'
horsemouth doesn't know about that 'direct and immediate interaction' bit - one of the advantages of mail art is that you are not there to witness the reception of it, you are not obliged to comment on the comments. (in this way it more resembles email than social media, it resembles writing more than conversation and speech - as one would expect).
divulge here is a translation from the italian of divulgare (probably) which has more the meaning of to disseminate.
divulge (in english) has more the sense of to spill a secret.
he's not so keen on the common people bit either.
when praising something people tend to favour the direct, immediate and unmediated (over the delayed and considered and mediated). but there is something to be said for both. horsemouth has worked at this point of tension between writing and speech, between recording and performing, between playing and improvising, for a long time.
he supposes that what he will have to do for his letter is actually write it (rather than type in his thoughts as he is doing now). despite working as a notetaker for many years his handwriting is not the best.
the today that will be yesterday is a day without coffee
he's going to wait until the tomorrow that is today when he can pick up a copy of the hereford times as well. he should probably have asked his mother to pick up some when she went in (but hey).
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'official figures suggest that the number of households living in fuel poverty was on track to rise to 2.78m homes in england by 2025...
.. more households – as many as 9.6m across the UK – are estimated to be living in cold, poorly insulated homes...
- by june last year, the amount of energy debt shouldered by households had climbed to a new high of £4.43bn, an increase of ... 71% since 2023...'
it all continues to get worse but there is at least a plan (the warm homes plan) to move things forward. horsemouth hopes that all this aligns with the plans of the communal endeavour and that at the end good things will come out of it. some moving of the goalposts has taken place (in particular the scrapping of the ECO schemes) but hopefully not fatally.
having pursued this for four years horsemouth would like to see it get to a satisfactory conclusion - the listed houses insulated up to an EPC C standard and the process of moving towards lower carbon heating begun.
interesting presentation by the greg jackson from octopus.
however, it is also no longer his problem.
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