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Thoughts on art, animation and the anthropocene from @ruralidyll.art ✏️🪨✨ https://ruralidyll.substack.com/

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25 Sept 2025

Spring Summer Autumn Winter ruralidyll.substack.com/p/spring-sum...

ruralidyll.substack.comSpring Summer Autumn WinterHey everyone, just a quicky as my big long essays scarcely get much traction, not that it matters and we shouldn’t chase approval and blah blah, you know, whatevs …

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30 July 2025

The Iron Giant open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comThe Iron GiantThoughts on art, animation and the anthropocene ... 🖍️🪨✨

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1 July 2025

Details substack.com/@ruralidyll/...

substack.comDetailsWhen I was a kid I saw a job advertised for an artist at a games company.

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27 May 2025

Thoughts form open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comThoughts formSome days ago I felt happy.

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3 May 2025

Slow Change open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comSlow ChangeA few days a week I commute for several hours on the train.

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7 Apr 2025

East. West. North. South open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comEast. West. North. SouthCroque monsieur, Croque madame

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6 Mar 2025

What am I saying? substack.com/@ruralidyll/...

substack.comWhat am I saying?I am intending to use this substack as a more typical mailing list, and less of a cry for help / sackable offence.

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8 Jan 2025

Out of Hiding open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comOut of HidingWhat does Hidy Thing represent now that we are out of hiding?

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30 Dec 2024

'Winter Arc' open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.com‘Winter Arc’Memey title and social media approved subheading to go here ...

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18 Dec 2024

‘24 open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.com24I keep trying to write something, a best of, a catchup, a jaunty round robin of achievements unlocked.

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27 Aug 2024

Learning Animation (Again?) ruralidyll.substack.com/p/learning-a...

ruralidyll.substack.comLearning AnimationAgain?

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15 Aug 2024

TezQuakeAid open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comTezQuakeAidExcerpted from The Tickle #88

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22 Nov 2023

Road to Peace open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comRoad to PeaceI've been thinking a lot lately about the impetus to be part of the conversation. I am maybe older than many contemporary internet users, and sometimes need to sit with how I'm thinking. Its a privile...

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8 Oct 2023

Seen and Not Seen #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comSeen and Not SeenSometimes you think its in your head, like you’re imagining things.

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27 Sept 2023

On self image, Haring and Metamodernism #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comOn self image, Haring and MetamodernismWhen we moved here, I had big plans ...

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27 Sept 2023

Retirement Gan #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comRetirement GanAtomised souls reminiscing about a night on the internet as the world warms.

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27 Sept 2023

Tree dwelling mammal noted for its slowness of movement. On @slothzine #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comTree dwelling mammal noted for its slowness of movement.A few months ago Burka asked me if I wanted to draw a comic for the inaugural sloth zine.

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27 Sept 2023

Cracked Foundations #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comCracked FoundationsThis is quite Tezos centric, so if you are here for hauntology or house music, more soon …

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27 Sept 2023

Another dreamer in capitalism’s maw #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comAnother dreamer in capitalism’s maw.The reason I’m always late is capitalism sucks. The time from our lives and our life from the Earth.

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27 Sept 2023

art < Art #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comart < ArtPeople are asking what art is again? Again? A GAN? Can AI be art?

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27 Sept 2023

Meltdown #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comMeltdownI think I was about 9 when i first learned about the hole in the ozone layer.

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27 Sept 2023

Going back in #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comGoing back in.Will I always pine for those first few months of lockdown? Is that my WWII?

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27 Sept 2023

Checky Checky Checky #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comchecky checky checkyExploring 6 month burnout, art with meaning, and the celebrity capitalist saviour complex.

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27 Sept 2023

Working from Here #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comWorking From HereI’ve finished my residency. I’d always wanted to take a residency, often mooning aspirationally over sun dappled cabins in the catskills, dorset boltholes and a long held fantasy of just jacking i...

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27 Sept 2023

Up or Down? #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comUp or Down?Since discovering, or at least first writing Nifty Digits, 6 months ago …

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27 Sept 2023

On @hidything.art #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comHidy ThingIts been about 5 or 6 months since I began minting nfts. Not creating them specifically for this purpose, but minting existing things we’d already made in this new digital way. Animations made throu...

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27 Sept 2023

Finding My Brushes #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comFinding my brushesIt comes together slowly for me. Last march when those in the know were busy becoming HicEtNunc OG’s, I thought it would be cool to launch a tshirt line (child of the 70’s that I am). It was the c...

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27 Sept 2023

Shoreditch Hauntology #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comShoreditch HauntologyToday I came to Shoreditch. The hereafter party, hollowed out ghost. A rumour of cool hair and culture scarcely remain. No-one looks the part now, unless the part is “anonymous walk-on, early middle...

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27 Sept 2023

Where it's at #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comWhere it’s atI started drawing these rocky island seastacks in response to a group exhibition asking what God is; it started a heavy jag into all kinds of theosophy, shamanism, afrofuturism, animism, shingon buddh...

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27 Sept 2023

Nifty Digits #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comNifty DigitsWhen I was coming up 20 odd years ago the big thing was to get a portfolio website. Anything on it ideally needed to be associated with named clients, to prove that you’re reliable (call it proof of...

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27 Sept 2023

Artist Manqué #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comArtist manquéMy mum and my dad were both artist manqués. Creative, artistic, literate, bright kids at the tousled fringes of Bohemia. Bohemia is the wrong word. Bohemia to me less evokes the artistic gypsy underc...

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27 Sept 2023

Drawing #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comDrawingMy first love was drawing. Since I could first hold a pen. Nothing else in this life gives me that fleeting moment of transcendence like drawing with inky pens. Pencils, keep em. Puters, no thanks. I ...

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27 Sept 2023

COVid #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comCOVidThings begin to coalesce. Grind. Stagnate. The realisation you loathe the Guardian and yourself. What are the dreams about whalesong trying to tell me Yoko? Couch again, banishment, nearby foxes yowl ...

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27 Sept 2023

The world turned upside down #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comThe world turned upside downSomething about this I’m struggling to put my finger on. We’ve lost countless others. Deified figures. Legends. Icons. Figures from another age perhaps. Weatherall was now. “The leader of our ge...

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27 Sept 2023

On Bridget Riley #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comOn Bridget RileyAs a kid I’d love to break my perceptions staring at fire, bright light through windows, upside down skies of burning white cloud glow, dappling flicker of trees in wind.

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27 Sept 2023

Everybody in the Place #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comEverybody in the PlaceAs each generation enshrines the culture of our youth with significance, we are mourning our own lives. Youthful optimism preserved in amber. I remember these parties and these people. This is the era...

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27 Sept 2023

Underground #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comUndergroundSecond piece about Samantha Whates' Waiting Rooms album for the wonderful people at Elsewhere. It’s hard to believe Samantha ever recorded in here. Sneaked in after hours by game TFL staff and adren...

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27 Sept 2023

E Mare Libertas #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comE Mare LibertasAmidst the turbid wastes, rusting apparitions pepper the gloom. Last vestiges of empire stand sentinel for a forgotten foe. No response to their radios home. Their moot calls heard by gulls alone. Str...

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27 Sept 2023

Prove you're not a robot #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comProve you’re not a robotThe terrifying realisation that we’re on the outs. And we’ve all been training the hive mind. Tapping away, tinkering and tweeting, toying and talking, changing our passwords, forgetting our login...

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27 Sept 2023

Death From Above #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comDeath From AboveTo the woods today, emblazoned in damp and amber. Searching a stash of magical balm. To soothe my heart and quell my woes. Soul so leaden, lonely, atomised. Scruffy ducks and pied crows. Wattle and da...

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27 Sept 2023

Armchair Psychogeographer #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comArmchair PsychogeographerThe wilds of the ancient forest. Only 3 stops from home. In borrowed trainers I set out for the treeline. Out along the marshy plain, the boggy Ching bubbling between my toes. Cold and squelchy, a mil...

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27 Sept 2023

Dunoon #substack open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comDunoonSinger and songwriter Samantha Whates has recorded her forthcoming album entirely on location in a series of waiting rooms; some active, some abandoned, trains, buses, hospitals, ferries, care homes. ...

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27 Sept 2023

Climate of Envy #substack #ruralidyll open.substack.com/pub/ruralidy...

open.substack.comClimate of EnvyI’m so happy to see climate change finally being discussed. The frightening combination of plummeting insect numbers and subsequent vanishing bird populations is suddenly in our discourse. The cultu...

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