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MEMORY FLINCH
CONDITION WHEREBY A SHAMEFUL MEMORY SUDDENLY ARISES, CAUSING SIMULTANEOUS BODY SPASM

It is a good thing. It tells you you need to resolve something. Visualise whatever the issue is as an appropriate picture symbol- imagine it slipping into an envelope in outer space, which then seals itself and gently drifts off into eternity.

I'm an artist, get me out of here!
These are new notes 2009 December. Latest conception regards how to get myself out of this place I am trapped in. Using art... social issues, personal issues- Have to turn the neg into pos. Also have to think about should I 'give' to society... but by making art that's what I'm doing... Do i have to consciously try to do so? Or is it implicit in my output, intended or otherwise?

Some ideas... where i'm at.... Buckfast bottle sculptures...
trapped in a big plastic bubble sculpture... could be me in there... or a dummy or aritst figure... needs thought...
big bubble is left on housing scheme for the locals to have their way with.

New variant on DEFACED sculpture....
a cast iron block with cast paint tins on top... it is painted realistically just like real paint tins... and old brushes...
Defaced in Latin or Greek... on side....

BOY RACER PIMP CAR
A pimped boy-car- hi-fi nasty customisations... bolt on bits... fins...

Car graphics can be deep and meaningful... the hifi pumps out ambient music of beauty... hypnotic... sub-aquatic soundscapes...
there are projections of tropical fish on the tinted windows from inside equipment.... perhaps the shocks rock the care gently...

The Bach Mobile- Driven around provincial towns pimped up baroque boy racer style... driven carefully... the exhaust tuned to a melodic note... perhaps 4 exhausts tuned in a soothing four part harmony... Bach is played on the car hi-fi from open window.... loudly but gently....

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Chocolate David Icke 2009 (sold)

BANKSY INSPIRED BY KEITH EMSLIE MITCHELL?

TWO OILS of mine, Pastoral Scene and Westbourne Park 2000 seem to have inspired Banksy to produce uncannily similar work. Those were exhibited in a gallery in Banksy's most active site, before he became famous.

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Keith Mitchell 2000, Pastoral Scene...................Banksy's reworking of Pastoral Scene?- 2003

PASTORAL SCENE 2000: Banksy's variation appeared three years after mine appeared in a Brick Lane gallery- The Brickhouse Gallery- 'Tennants at the Brickhouse' : Westminster Housing Co-op, in year 2000. Banksy's Wikipedia entry says- "2003....He has moved on to producing subverted paintings.... adapted to include urban detritus..."

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Westbourne Park, 2000- K E Mitchell................................................Banksy's later work same location-coincidence?

Apparantly inspiration for another Banksy piece seen here as a photograph. Compare for yourself. From same show as above- Brick Lane 2000

Note surveillance cameras in top right of 'Westbourne Park 2000'- compare with image below; a hybrid of my two other paintings.

Banksy's apparent hybrid of my two works, note
cameras in top right of 'Westbourne Park 2000'

MORE PAINTINGS

Kiss Our Arses In Space, 180x120cm, oil on canvas, 2002 -£600

Smokin' Joe Nebulous- 2009- 90 x 90cm

Kiss Our Arses, 1990, -180x60cm- £350

Peas- 2009, 120x60 cm- £260

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Sput 2000 5"x5, oil, gesso -£75---------------------Bluepink 2004, 10x10 oil -£45

............................Scottish headstone AD 1672 - (2004)150cm x120-£ 250,

Crow Flying- 2008, oil on canvas 40x40cm

.................................................................................................................Flight of the Pensioner 12.5x12.5cm-£50
Drunk with blue squirrel 2000, 12.5x12.5,
oil on gesso,2001 (sold)

Painta: Oil on canvas 22.5"x 22.5cm" : 2000 -£75

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Blackpink, 2003, Oil, 30x30cm base (sold) --------Perugino Detail, 2003 30x60cm £55

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Halo 2000 60x60cm oil on panel -£150-------------------------digital drawing 2003

Long Abstract 45x90cm -£250

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Orion Nebula -£120 -25x25cc....................................................................Jupiter -60x60cm -£190

Figure, 2002, 50x42cm- £100

bear 25x25cm -£100 .........................................................................................Smokehole - 55x40cm-£75

Plastic Miner -25x25cm -£60

Uncle Blob 2004..... £65

loch ore 1990, Oil on paper, 100x125cm

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---------------------Kollaps-Sing (Amon Duul), 2004, 20x20cm, £65

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keltyk — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:52:16 CST

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Mob v Art :1990 - 90x45cm -£1150.00

We live in a tabloid culture that serves to distract us while the powers that be scoop up the cream.
Out of the dross, Art can be made

BA(hons) Drawing & Painting
HND Creative Interactive Multimedia
Post-graduate studies in Fine Art Management
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Painting & Drawing
Painter of many years experience:
Banksy seems to have appropriated some of my ideas- page 2

Dunfermline Arts & Media a voluntary group founded to raise Dunfermline's cultural profile and develop opportunities for local talent. Co-founder and Assistant Co-ordinator

Dunfermline Art Festival Involved in arranging this first time event in connection with Dunfermline Arts & Media. Commences July 7th 2009

Writing and Poetry

Currently involved in editing The Fife Anthology, a showcase for quality work by
writers and poets connected with Fife, Scotland

Performance Art: It is likely I was the first to take Performance Art from gallery to nightclub where I subverted peoples' realities.
1991, The Legendary Pelican Club,
Aberdeen, Scotland
Produced 4 pieces on separate occasions

Unofficial Public Art, undocumented stencil art in Aberdeen streets. Pre-dating Banksy by
several years.

Shows: Recent- Dunfermline Arts Festival 2009. Art in public: High Stree, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.
Mixed Show- Carnegie Hall and Music Institute- Dunfermline

Mixed shows various galleries: London and Scotland. Favourable press in Scotsman, Glasgow Herald
and others

1988
Solo exhibition: Aga Khan, Perth Rd. Dundee, Scotland
Work in private collections

Education
Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland
Kensington & Chelsea College, London
Lauder (Carnegie) College, Dunfermline, Fife (interactive multimedia)
Beath Senior High School, Cowdenbeath, Fife

Born: Dunfermline, Fife

Lived in London, Aberdeen, Dundee,
and short spell in USA.
Currently resides Dunfermline

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keltyk — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:58:40 CDT

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21 June 08-
Gardening for Change
"New beginnings are in the offing" (Joseph Beuys)

IN VIEW OF changing priorities and rethinking of global food, supply and energy matters; in an attempt to learn, encourage and educate, I begun urban gardening using windowsills and the tiny concrete yard behind my flat. In some ways, continuing a work begun by artist Joseph Beuys in the 1960s.
This is an experimental step towards localised economies and healthy diet. We should prepare to self support as communities in order to promote ecological balance and free ourselves from over-dependence on corporate control of our food needs.
I believe we must reduce our dependency on oil, and that localised economies and urban farming are a key element in such action. If it means we don't have to import so much food, it means less oil consumption. There is a heavy political/social price to pay for oil.

BBC NEWS HOMEPAGE June 08 article URBAN FARMING

tomato flowers, pollenated, soon to drop

11th July 08: Radish, basil, lettuce, tomato- things are
coming on a bit

THE BEGINNINGS; 21st June 08
tomatoes, lettuce, spinach beets,
radish, cauliflower, broccoli,
wild rocket germinating

First life- late June coriander........Basil
and capsicum seedlings

My first tomatoes

The yard...

three or four square metres of enclosed concrete with little sunlight

Potatoes, coriander, French beans, garlic, lettuce, peppers, chilli, radish,
not only a source of excellent food but transforms this this ugly yard

Wildness in the kitchen...

Home-made bread

DECIDED TO TRY nettle soup. So went walking with plastic bag and gardening gloves to gather nettles. Took only tops, leaving rest for insect habitat. In kitchen stripped a good amount of leaves from stems with gloves, being careful not to include any flowers. Apparently it's best to pick them earlier in the season when not flowering, but I ignored this*. It means the stems are too tough to cook, so it means extra effort picking the leaves.
* I later read that mature nettles can irritate the kidneys but experienced no discomfort

While I plucked the leaves I had some garlic, onion and diced baby potatoes with skins sautéing in soup pan. After sautéing I added all the ingredients to a plastic bowl with water saved from potatoes boiled earlier in the day. I included a vegetable stock cube then covered bowl with a soup dish and put in microwave for fifteen minutes (bonus-you get nice hot dish to serve up in). I then run it in the blender till fine.

The resulting soup was delicious; like creamed spinach but nicer. I reserved half the soup in a container and returned rest to microwave but adding diced salami, giving it four more minutes. I now have veggie and non veggie options

perhaps best soup I've ever tasted.

Diced bacon in place of salami should be as delicious if not more so.
Cooking things in a microwave is quicker and uses far less power.
Cooking takes the sting out of nettles

nettle and salami soup with home baked
bread- delicious, nutritious

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Fresh nettles and reserved veggie version of soup -----------------cooking in microwave; fast, excellent, saves much power

Ingredients-

Freshly picked nettles, strip leaves, discard flowers
Sliced baby potatoes in skins
Chopped onion
Garlic cloves to taste
Vegetable or chicken stock cube
Water reserved from boiled vegetables if available
Salt
Black pepper

Diced salami or bacon (0ptional but delicious)

Nettle stir fry

INGREDIENTS AS SEEN below, include wok-ready noodles in
sachet (behind orange capsicum). Red object issalad washer
for rinsing nettles. Chinese container- regular soy sauce used as
sautéing liquid, added copiously shortly after the noodles
The white vegetable in front of the orange capsicum is a skinned
and halved onion the other half of which was sliced and included
in the recipe

The empty dish speaks for itself

Nettle Curry and Cous-Cous

AN EXPERIMENT in which the ingredients included potato, onion, garlic, palm oil, fresh coriander, dried coriander, coriander seeds, grated ginger, cinnamon bark, salt. The same batch of nettles from 3 days ago, starting to wilt slightly but no rotting.

Curry served with cous cous instead of rice. It's light, won't
bag you up, requires minimal fuel. It's also cheap and
there appears to be no shortage

Cook the cous cous in a Thermos container-
with a nob of butter and some salt; pour boiling water
into it, to twice the volume of grain, affix lid, lay on its side
and leave for minimum five minutes: Stays hot and ready to
serve for a long time. Very fuel efficient**

Opinion- VERY GOOD but lacks something. Perhaps more nettles but trial and error will produce an excellent dish.
If it contained chick peas and was cooked in ghee or vegetable ghee this would be exceedingly tasty.
Nettles might also work well in curried lamb or goat.
Search for nettle curry recipes online.

** Don't fill a kettle for one cup of tea, only boil what's needed: Freshly boiled, NOT reheated water makes superior
tea. Reheated water loses oxygen

Nettle notes- Uncommonly nutritious, would deliciously enhance

fish
chicken
lamb
goat
ricotta pastries
quiche
pasta
curry
veggie burgers
tofu

and much more

23 June 08 New seedlings appear in their containers:

LETTUCE, RADISH, spinach beets, basil, cauliflower; the radishes appeared overnight
and were the fastest of all to develop. Leaves are relatively large for fresh growth and are
red tinged. Lettuce buds are tiny but the basil sprout is very tiny. Excepting the basil, which
took a while, these things were planted only 2 days ago. Capsicum and coriander are slow
developers: They were planted perhaps 3 weeks ago and took over 2 weeks to germinate

24 June,

MORE SEEDLINGS including quite prolific wild rocket, more lettuce and spinach beet.
The radishes have really come on superfast

SOYA BEANS

WHAT A RICH discovery- I bought a 25p (50c) bag of organic soy beans, probably half a kilo intending to make tofu and soy milk.
There were byproducts in the process, all of which were edible and gave unprecedented depth of flavour from seasonings and other foods the byproducts are cooked with. One 25p bag inspired much experimental cooking and contributed so much by way of bulk and flavour enhancement, that it has provided delicous, nutritious, top quality food for nearly a week, that may have cost me around £4 ($8). I have at least another day's worth of soya food to get through yet

It is notable that soya beans do not appear to cause a flatulence problem.

I have learned something about tofu making. It is much tastier fresh; I know now how to make it more successfully and in proper quantitiy next time.

Here are the dishes I recall enjoying- I noticed a considerable increase in the flavour and quality of my cooking during these processes. Could my love and enthusiasm have played the biggest part? I can't decide, perhaps if you try it you could let me know what you think.

Soya milk milkshake with honey and carob (vanilla essence would improve this but I'd run out)
Scrambled tofu on home bake bread toast, with rosemary, parsley and thyme
Fried vegetables with creamy tasting soya mulch left over from milk making
Soup from above and the leftover bean crumbs, included capsicum, potato, onion, herbs
Soup made from the whey left from tofu making plus bean crumbs and vegetables
Veggie burgers made from the bean crumbs, with egg replacer to bind
Mexican spicy beanburgers made from bean crumbs
Both above served with excellent home baked burger rolls
Spaghetti Bolgnese using soya crumbs- totally champion! Served on wholewheat spaghetti topped with olive oil, sea salt, pepper and cottage cheese. I used yeast extract to beef up the taste

I still have a large pot of great soup
a veggie burger and a bean burger

SOME GARDENING NOTES... LEARN AS I

GO.... THE TOMATO CRISIS

think i figured the tomato problem.... by studying online. Most likely is magnesium deficiency.. but also likely because i was late in starting the toms...
and when transplanted, the soil may have been too cold: this too can cause bloom end rot...

and that is what we have.... for sure now.... i can see how it has developed... it is typical in some types of case that only the earliest fruit rots... so far this is exactly so. The way leaf discoloration is depicted for mag defic... looks accurate...
so... bloom end rot and yellowing dying leaves indicate mag defic...
one treatment for immediate action... foliar spray of epsom salts...
so happened to have just that in the house...
so have given the plants a heavy misting of solution of epsom salts...
let some into the soil too...
not a radically strong solution... see if this works...
chances of fruit ripening this late... not sure... has been little bright sun for the past month... now autumn is creeping towards us...
it can be felt in the stiffness of the weather... not cold yet... but not summer anymore...

glad of opportunity to learn...

i still must find more wild foods....
i will try some clover soon...
plenty around in country...
i got some blackberries...
i may try and find a lot to make preserve....

i have indoor chili plants flowering...

discovered aphids all over them... sprayed with soapy water... that's meant to do the trick...
will check tomorrow and see.. but looks good...
have to now stimulate the flowers to get fruiting.... working on it....

was concerned tomato disease cld get chilis... but it seems it isn't viral but physical cause for toms...

i am learning... it is good that i am aware now of infection and hygene...

hope the chillies ripen up good.... next year will plant earlier...

basil is massive and fragrant...

the chilis and a tomato plant... all in stages of blossom are in my bedroom

i have developed of late an irriatation of the sinuses and back nasal throat area...
i thought perhaps was getting virus of respiratory system.... felt like early onset of that...

had mild breathing irritation that mildly disturbed sleep in night....

i am guessing that either this one tomato plant is causing it... or.... since chili is an irritant...
and they started blooming so lately... it is in fact more likely to be chili pollen causing discomfort...
so they will have to migrate rooms at night at least... but shame because they love the bedroom windowsill
and with the curtain drawn it traps and reflects heat in the window area and they love that...
it would be the way to bring fruit on them...
but... ok... lesson... when in bloom... they probably aren't good to share bedroom with...

the yard has attracted various bug life...
this is a nice feeling.... lot of spiders....
we need them...

and a lot of hover flies were drawn to the flowering coriander... they love that and did a great job of pollinating it...

the tiny fruits on the coriander taste exquisite... a poweful but delicate burst of flavour...
they will soon harden into round seeds....

the hover flies are.. i read.. supposed to love hunting and eating aphids... but maybe there is a different species for that...
ladybugs are what are required for the job...

not a slug in sight all this time...
there may not have been anything for them over the years... ever... so no colonies here....
but there are wild weeds up on the roofs of an obselete bit of the building... hope they're not infested with slugs

but like i say.. none at all... i expect it takes them days to migrate and it is not easily accessible for them here...

I saw swarms of those busy little flies of the evening that look a bit like midges but I think are not sanguivorous... they were busily
oscillating four feet above the centre of the yard right in the middle. I have created a little micro ecosystem, I find beauty in it.

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Conceptual Art thinks YOU are shit

IDEAS FROM EARLY PERIOD OF 'BRIT ART MOVEMENT': LATE 1980s

These are ideas that have been in my head since the late 1980s

Hit and run sculpture- PRE-VANDALISED ART, PUBLIC ANTI-ART or ANTI PUBLIC-ART?
My 'Objets D'Art' were to have been dumped clandestinely in areas of social deprivation. They might be 'pre-vandalised' or provoke destruction.
A name and concept I considered working under was
Hit and Run Ambulance

20ft high soccer ball left without warning next to any sign on an estate that says-
NO BALL GAMES
This object confounds reality by tempting the residents to break the rules while impeding their ability to do so. Perhaps absurdity and humour can open minds to alternative possibilities that can transcend the banal, oppressive, destructive cycle of decay that infests harsh urban environments and poses the threat of stifling imagination, growth and development. Bad council estates are emblematic of erosion of the value and sanctity of life. It is a problem that should be continually addressed so that solutions might be sought. In this way I try to evoke awareness and discussion

Other Community Art proposals:

Cast iron pit bull terrier on a plinth. On the plinth the name 'RUSTY' appears.

A variant is a 10ft+ Pit Bull Terrier on wheels; contructed from timber and named 'TROJAN'
Two likely pet names for dogs, used here with ambiguous meaning.
Pit bull terriers are iconic status symbols of the new underclass. I feel statues of such would be welcomed like the Trojan Horse onto public housing estates; culture by stealth, with reference and respect to timeless, classical education (Story of Troy) added. You can lead a horse to slaughter, but sometimes it needs a push.

'Rusty'- This idea references basic lessons in Chemistry, Physics and Industrial/Art/Social History. Deeper nuances of the ideas are open for you to ponder without being 'spoon fed'.

18ft concrete monolith with a Latin word for DEFACED moulded into it.
Word possibilities include-

deletum- subverto (overturn destroy)
prosterno- (knock down, destroy)

or other similar, such as;
eradico - confundo- disperdo- anullo- deleo-.

A variant idea utilises the Celtic 'Stone Circle' model, where each concrete upright (8ft in height) contains one of the various Latin terms meaning 'defaced'
Reference is made to the Celtic past, using archetypal modern building material. We have moved from the Stone Age into the Concrete Age. Sometimes we must examine what we have become. Why Latin? I leave that for you to consider

Idea dates back to 1989
On completion of monolith or 'stone' circle-
containers and spray cans of paint, plus old brushes are accidentally left lying nearby
for the locals to discover, Thus they can begin their acts of vandalism/revenge/frustration upon the Objet D'Art itself, (which they would've done anyway) and thus become unwitting participants in the process and meaning of the work, therefore subverting their acts of destruction into acts of creativity,so also meeting the obligatory 'community involvement' element. Creativity is in everything human. Life without creativity and imagination leads to frustration, banality and pain.

Further proposal suited to London type urban environment-

Old lady clutching handbag- she is made of vandal-proof carbon fibre...
with a voicebox inside that screams 'please don't hurt me' when she is struck... a surveillance camera monitors local youth interacting with and attempting to harm the figure.
The reason being to provoke thought about community values and respect. An interesting social contrast between North and South UK is that in England acts of violence often involve robbery as motive: Whereas Scottish violence tends to be gratuitous. This would seem to elicit enquiry

1990 Undocumented street art applied by hand-cut stencil. Inspired by gang tags of 1970s New York and early work by JONATHAN GOSLAN. They consisted of cypher-like images and/or brief verbal statements, such as-
'conceptual art thinks YOU are shit'.
Most of the ideas here pre-date works of Banksy.

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I had no idea how to actualise my ideas but placated myself with the belief that ideas in their cerebral or notational forms were valid media in their own right; a notion taken from Joseph Beuys, who said: "Thought is Sculpture"

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COMPLACENCY IS A COMMON AILMENT

Huts at The Shed Shack

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