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View this email in your browser Hello. Autumn already, or Fall, a description I prefer. The summer which has just departed felt even more fleeting than my memory of those before it; no doubt an inevitable facet of my approaching decrepitude. Still, it's all good, right? A possible counter-explanation for the seeming brevity of summer is that I've been kind of preoccupied with a number of activities which prevented me from lazing around on a beach drinking cocktails and reading trashy novels. A partial account of a couple of those activities follows. Bon voyage! Go well!  Be safe! S W I F T S  H O L L O W Here is 'Swifts Hollow', a screen print made at the Slowly Downward Manufactory from a drawing I did based on a trackway near Shere in the hills of Surrey, a county located to the south of London. Across these hills are many old 'drove roads', roads that were once used to walk with cattle from field to market, and have never been made up with concrete or tarmac. They remain open to all traffic, strangely enough, so if you desire you can drive a massive SUV along them; and judging by the churned mud that is exactly what a certain section of the public likes to do. But these trackways are extraordinarily fragile, home to a plethora of wildlife and some of the most extravagant mosses and lichens to be found anywhere in the islands of Britain. Most of the drove roads are very old, carved into the landscape by centuries of footsteps and hoof-marks, deepened by age and the weather. It was in Surrey that I first saw a holloway, somewhere near a place named Friday Street. I now draw these sunken ways almost as a meditation. This print is in an edition of 99; the paper size is 610mm x 465mm, and the print size is approximately 550mm x 400mm. They're signed and numbered by myself and stamped with the Slowly Downward Manufactory embossing stamp. Each print is £150. If you wish to order one of the prints from this edition, please click the button below...   THE SLOWLY DOWNWARD MANUFACTORY W A T C H I N G This print is called 'WATCHING', and is the fifth print to be released through The Lost Domain. There is an intention here to emphasise the fact that we need to take care of our environment, to look after the world that we live in and not blunder around destroying it for the sake of shiny gadgetry, illusory financial incentives, high-octane status symbols and other fripperies of our culture. Some may disagree with me; and yes, what do I know? I admit I am merely a 53 year old human who likes trees and has read a number of books. As with SOL, LUNA, SET & RISE the edition will be printed according to demand on high quality paper using archival inks; then signed, numbered and despatched. Prints from The Lost Domain are always the same size - 420mm x 280mm. Each is £100. This print will be available to pre-order from The Lost Domain for a period of 48 hours from 6pm on Thursday 30th September. If you wish to pre-order a print please click the button below... (Please note; pre-ordering commences at 6pm on 30th September) THE LOST DOMAIN O T H E R  M A T T E R S There are a few other things which have prevented my complete enjoyment of beaches, cocktails and trashy novels, most of which are detailed to a greater or lesser extent on the Twitter account of my tweets, and on my feeding of items to the voracious maw that is Instagram. Both of these delights can be accessed by a gentle tap on the little icons below these here words.   Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list