We only look at the small, limited topics here. Not.

As with many of you, I’ve always needed back stories so as to know how to view someone’s being and utterances, to put them in perspective. Thank goodness this girl does just that with an interview with her mom … a most interesting mother indeed.

There are all sorts of things which stood out there … mother wrong side of the tracks, lucky break in some ways, not in others, her daughter not wanting for much, materially, so she tries to strike out for herself, hence the channel, plus a clothing line which, frankly … well … er … well, let’s cut her some slack. Plus her head is a mix of Catholicism, Plato, other bits and pieces … very intense. Mother says daughter was always far deeper than she was … a thinker.

Mom was glamorous, daughter is an awkward kid now grown up. A most interesting interview … see Toodles’s url reply to Redacted. There’s a bit of teacher/parent in my attitude to daughter … very much daughter type, not partner … mother was far more my past attachments. My sympathies are with the daughter … trying to make her way, get her project off the ground.

However, in her endeavour to be fair to us men, she might have gone too far … our Julia at Ambush P plus OoL also has a very positive attitude to men who are men, not to “wozzes”, just as I adore sane females with moral compasses, crazy in good ways, not loony ways. Mother above here a bit too glamorous for mine … sounds strange?

Now to daughter’s main premise … throughout history, men have designed and built, women have been men’s muses … men write, draw, build to God and then to the girls. At this point, I have to interrupt … quite a few men have … it’s a normal curve, with the Michelangelos up at one end … the Pol Pots, Blairs and Lenins at the other.

My take on men designing, painting, cooking, building is that yes … we do frameworks and then the lady fills the space with her elegance, things, she gives the interior and maybe garden their character.

Looking quite specifically at shape and design versus colour tone here was my early morning sunroom-storeroom window:

Those parallel horizontals and verticals are quite deliberate, as is the raggedy black tape at the left end of the sill, holding the mat, plus I’ve still not removed the two decades old tape from the window frames. I wanted flawed perfection or in Julia JD’s case … a very real person with a back story, flaws in many ways, but the whole package … a most valuable human. She’s forever on about beauty … in a harsh brogue which calls beauty “beyudee”. But it’s her imperfections I like far more than the perfect aspects.

In the case of my abode here, it’s an attempt to rusticise the plasticism, if that makes any sense. The walls are tabula rasa, in that modernist idiom, but nature paints images on the wall, ever changing as the day goes on:

None of what you see there are objects themselves, the objects reflected are just out of shot to our right. What you see are all shadows … all of them, the wall is like a cinematic screen. Yet there are signs of imposed order too around the room, especially parallel and perpendicular lines, horizontal and vertical.

And so to JJD’s thesis itself:

Could man produce the high art without God, nature, woman? I’d say no way. And yes, there are the Bronte sisters, Josephine Tey … some of the best has been done by women … especially in colour and layout … but for sheer maverick design …

… over and over Julia JD says, I say, that it is the symbiosis which counts … esp. in that music earlier … no way could that band have risen to those heights without the joined man and woman. We can argue that all day, all year. And remember … JJD is looking only at art in that youtube.