{"id":1783,"date":"2021-06-28T12:40:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T11:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallypommeclayton.com\/blog\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2022-10-27T10:32:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:32:06","slug":"this-is-a-low-but-it-wont-hurt-you-blur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This is a low, but it won&#8217;t hurt you&#8217; (Blur)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>On repeat. &#8216;This is low&#8217;. Repeat. &#8216;It won&#8217;t hurt you&#8217;.<br \/>Anyone else listening?<br \/>I have been a freelance artist in London since 1984. I am at the end of my 50&#8217;s, and I feel invisible. Everything has come to an end. Nothing works. The radical and pioneering work I made all these years has floated away, and left emptiness.<br \/>Anyone else?<br \/>This is a low.<br \/>Dearest friends have left London. Empty homes.<br \/>This is a low.<br \/>Dearest collaborators have left the UK. Empty projects.<br \/>This is a low.<br \/>Dearest family have left the world. Empty hearts.<br \/>This is a low.<br \/>Anyone?<br \/>It hurts.<br \/>Everyone.<br \/>Oh joy, determination, creative inspiration, return.<br \/>Oh kickass, do-it-your-self, fuck-you attitude, come back.<br \/>Repeat. It won&#8217;t hurt you.<br \/>The river still flows. And flows.<br \/>On repeat.<br \/>Flow will come again.<br \/>This is (a) f(low).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RbtURAOqytA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Thank you Damon Albarn and Blur)<\/a><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fmakeandbelieve.uk%2F%3Fp%3D1783&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[592],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeandbelieve.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}