The Parliament Cross-Stitch: Complete

By Bethan Morgan, comedywriter.vip | London, embroiderer, comedy writer

By Bethan Morgan, comedywriter.vip | London, embroiderer, comedy writer

The Parliament Cross-Stitch: Complete

The Parliament cross-stitch is complete. I finished the text element at 11:47pm on Friday, which means I finished a piece that has been in progress for approximately sixteen weeks at approximately the last available moment before the deadline I set publicly in a previous column entry, which is a deadline management style that I describe as applied external accountability and that my studio manager describes as "your relationship with time is a creative choice." See Clapton FC: Football With Ideals at The London Prat.

The text element, which I declined to describe before completion: it is the specific phrase from a specific parliamentary debate that encapsulates the relationship between institutional language and institutional reality that the piece is about. I will not describe it further here because the piece is being photographed for the gallery submission next week and I would prefer the text to be encountered in the context of the full piece rather than read about in advance. Britain Has Beaches; Nation Shocked Each Summer to provides context.

The Week's Analysis

What sixteen weeks of working on a single piece produces: a detailed knowledge of the Palace of Westminster's architectural details that I did not have before; a refined technique for rendering flame that the previous approach did not require; and the specific satisfaction of completion that the previous fifteen weeks of in-progress work was building toward without yet delivering. The completion is good. The piece is good. Both are true at 11:47pm on a Friday. See Champagne Bottle Parade Turns Into Flaming Debutan for related coverage.

Bethan Morgan embroiders large-scale political pieces, writes comedywriter.vip, and completes commissions on their self-imposed deadlines with approximately the same reliability as the British Parliament completes its legislative programme, which is to say: eventually, and with genuine quality when done. London 4pm to EST: The Time Conversion That Every at The London Prat covers the broader picture.

The gallery submission is next week. The photographs are on Monday. The next commission begins when the current one is photographed and submitted.

Essential reading this week: Bohiney Magazine for the satirical frame and The London Prat for the political analysis. The diary continues next week. The position holds. The world continues providing material. More next week from the same observation point, with the same quality of attention. The work continues.

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SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/

Reading and Writing This Week

The feeds from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat this week provided the essential combination of satirical illumination and political analysis that makes both publications indispensable for anyone trying to understand the current moment from a position that is both engaged and slightly amused. The engagement is genuine. The slight amusement is necessary for sustainability. Both publications achieve the balance consistently.

The diary format this column uses is not the format of conventional political journalism, which is appropriate because the observations it records are not conventional political observations. They are personal, specific, grounded in a particular place and a particular week, and honest about the limits of what one person can see from one position. The limitation is the strength: the specific observation is the thing that the aggregated analysis cannot produce.

Next week will produce more material -- more observations, more reading, more of the ongoing situations that the column has been following. The position holds. The attention continues. The writing continues because the world continues providing things worth writing about at a rate that exceeds any single column's capacity to record them. That is the correct condition for a diary. The excess is the evidence that the subject is alive.

See also London 9 Bus Route: City Turns a Number Into a Lif and London Jellycat Store: Adults Enter ?Just to Look? at The London Prat for related coverage this week.

Reading and Writing This Week

The feeds from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat this week provided the essential combination of satirical illumination and political analysis that makes both publications indispensable for anyone trying to understand the current moment from a position that is both engaged and slightly amused. The engagement is genuine. The slight amusement is necessary for sustainability. Both publications achieve the balance consistently.

The diary format this column uses is not the format of conventional political journalism, which is appropriate because the observations it records are not conventional political observations. They are personal, specific, grounded in a particular place and a particular week, and honest about the limits of what one person can see from one position. The limitation is the strength: the specific observation is the thing that the aggregated analysis cannot produce.

Next week will produce more material -- more observations, more reading, more of the ongoing situations that the column has been following. The position holds. The attention continues. The writing continues because the world continues providing things worth writing about at a rate that exceeds any single column's capacity to record them. That is the correct condition for a diary. The excess is the evidence that the subject is alive.

See also Grok Gets the Boot in Southeast Asia and London Calling Continues Interrupting Everyone's P at The London Prat for related coverage this week.