notes

koans

neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T09:45:53+00:00

Koans 67) Count the stars in the heavens. 66) How can you rescue a man who fell in the 1000 foot well, without using a rope? 65) The sound if something struck! - and I have forgotten all I knew. Training was not even temporarily necessary. In movement and deportment I manifest the Ancient way,

image_fields_aren_t_abstract

neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-08-26T11:05:51+00:00

The image fields arent abstract. Creating societies between ourselves... Creating social scenes between ourselves... ... assembled from fragmented images, overlapping at different scales, from 1:1 scale to parts of miniature social gatherings, living room walls, buildings, settlements, workplaces, towns, city walls, cell walls, immune ststems, transport systems, battles and colonies.

start - [How do I make the field?]

neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-08-25T18:51:55+00:00

I started this collection of notes in the first few years of my kids being born. For the first few years of each of their lives I had very little studio time, my main artistic practice was writing notes to myself about how I'd like to practice if I had the time. I got into the habit of quickly tapping down ideas on my phone on the loo, on the stairs inbetween fetching teddies/clothes/food or just before falling asleep. As hard as that was, it's really done me a lot of good to just stop for a bit…

playing_with_thoughts_without_anthropomorphising

neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-07-16T21:56:50+00:00

🪝 Playing with thoughts without anthropomorphising Watching the kids playing with duplo, trainset and other toys lying around., Exploring the space of the living room in so many different ways, roleplaying a zoo computer game with abilities, power ups and rewards set amongst the furniture.

thoughts_are_desires

neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-07-16T21:54:14+00:00

Thoughts are desires This is what connects my practice back to the messyness of people. What im feeling invisibly moving around situations isn't just thoughts that happen to be moving, but the conflicting forces of my own and other peoples wills, intentions and desires. Thoughts aren’t static representations moving through space, but intentions for things to become that way, moving towards the thing they want to affect.

being_a_superorganism

neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-07-16T21:51:36+00:00

🪼 Being a superorganism Thoughts build the self as termites build a mound, living around the body like fish, shrimp and octopuses, in and around coral reefs. This feels key for this method - I want people to be able to roleplay on the scale of the ants. There could be something liberating in dropping our responsibility for our self and playing, thinking, moving and talking as the multitudes of different small but highly specialised thoughts and feelings.

that_feeling_of_being_watched

neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-07-16T21:50:31+00:00

👀 That feeling of being watched Sandi Hughes told me that when someone was getting above themselves and taking up too much space, she would say to them “Get back in your body you!” This is the phenomenon I’m trying to explore, the feeling I get, that we send out parts of ourselves to scan, interpret and manipulate the social space we're in. I can feel myself do it and I can sense the presence of other peoples emotions and wants. Most of them busy, intense and pressing onto me or other people, …

i_always_externalise_myself

neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-07-16T21:49:24+00:00

🎈 I already externalise myself I externalise myself more than I ever realised. The way I perceive, hold myself and speak in social situations, expands my sense of self out into the room. This was the first big observation sharon shared about her experience of me. After the car crash I've had time by myself for the first time in ages. I'm making sense of what that collision means because I wasn't worried about it and it happened anyway. But before it, there's me filling up all this space with a…

continuous_space_from_heart_to_room

neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-07-16T21:47:02+00:00

🫀 Continuous space from heart to room Inside is fluids, outside is fluids. Thinking, bodily sensations and rememberings move as fluids and gases inside and outside our bodies. The space I experience as being inside me is continuous with the space outside me. It sounds obvious but it’s taken 46 years for me to feel it. How much energy do I consume, trying to block the flow of unknown affects from out there to in here and vice versa?

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neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-07-10T21:35:52+00:00

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neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-07-10T21:33:45+00:00

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neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-23T09:08:19+00:00

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neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-23T09:08:01+00:00

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neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-22T20:34:46+00:00

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neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-22T20:34:11+00:00

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neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-22T20:30:20+00:00

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neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-22T20:29:10+00:00

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neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-22T20:28:58+00:00

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neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-22T20:26:50+00:00

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neilwinterburn (neilwinterburn@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-22T20:26:05+00:00