croston studio...clearing out junk and finding things...and people

for the past few days i have been busy sorting out my studio in croston....in preparation for a refettled roof....i have unearthed some junk and also some interesting forgotten memorabilia...well thats what i call it.......30 plus years of detritis.....my life like flotsam and jetsam....floating buy....questions like why did i keep this....their must have been a reason.....the reasons are now covered in dust and cobwebs.....some long lost but some still vibrant....hear are few examples of this lost world.......

date around 1974..note the kipper tie...ive still got the pink cord wrangler jacket.....no glasses......

do you rember slide film........found this stuck to a window...the do it yourself slide viewer....what do we do with them now....they are prehistoric monsters...from not that long ago....these are images of digital prints...quirky or what...i took pictures using slide film of digital images...the mind boggles.......

oh mani padme hom...a tablet made for a show in rochdale after my trip to the himalays in 97....i made a mani wall with the help of derek boak a frfiend who was also involved with anthony gormley on the field project for tate liverpool...the kids in his school made the figures.....the prayer is sitting on an old litho stone...that i use for mixing inks on...it still ahs old images impregnated on the surface....it is a glimpse of the history of images that once covered the stone....

flyer of sam holts.....now of copyright fame...international djs....sam and gavin...one his very early gigs in manchester with ian richardson.......these 2 started in ians garage in croston....sam is the middle one doing some kind of curious dance routine......they where probably paid  a fiver each or a few pints of beer....i think it was @ joshua brooks or the boardwalk....this where he is now
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    an early ticket for 2 aspiring djs sam holt and ian richardson.....they started their dj ing in ians soundproofed garage in croston..lancashire

this fell out of a book when i was sorting....its about 3 x 2 inches........it relates to some ideas i was playing with around 1965......moses and his tablets....standing on top of a hill.........there are some etchings lurking somewhere........

a fragment of a street poster from venice circa 1975 ish.....now why did i pick it up......more interesting why have i kept it all this time?...........my current work....collages from street posters......see below..

the moral here ......is dont throw it away....you never know......there is always a reason..........