January 31, 2007 – 6:56 pm
Being in prison was good fun, new, exciting, it was horrible! Through my mind things like “loser”, “useless”, “coward”, “irresponsible” came across all the time. The hardest thing for me to fight against was the image I had of myself. I was aware that my mind could take me down I’ve always known that, but there wasn’t any alcohol or drugs; no “run away”, no nothing… FACE IT! – I don’t want to!! – There is no escape for you, GO ON! … and I did it and you know what, once you face your fears, they just vanished and things became less traumatic.
This 3 minutes audio is about the first time Marilo (my partner) came to visit me and how things were going inside…
January 29, 2007 – 12:23 pm
You know, I think as soon as you are there, inside, in a cell, something inside “clicks” and some sort of process occurs inside which makes you capable to face the facts. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not easy whatsoever, but you can get good things out of it.
I was lucky; I had a wonderful woman out there, Marilo and Kalo – my son - made things easier for me. I was about to start a journey that changed my way of relating with my family and my world. Please click here to listen how a live in a UK prison is!
All comments are welcome,
Billy
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January 23, 2007 – 6:51 pm
The continuing story of Crafty Folk (in full audio) - a collective of homeless and ex-homeless people who run a Friday stall at Spitalfields Market in East London. This episode: The Folk discuss their Christmas party, ‘middle class bollocks’, skills, the arts, experience, food and male prostitution. Click here to hear episode 3
January 23, 2007 – 2:27 pm
Limite… la palabra nos separa… represión, noche, muros, laberintos… la imagen nos detiene de espaldas… reconociéndonos alejadamente, intima relación perdida…
Sinonimos, rarezas gramaticales…
January 18, 2007 – 4:06 pm
Hola, espero se encuentren bien, desde Colombia les escribo, soy uno de los integrantes de rupez3, y quiero crear un post, ya tengo un nombre de usuario en word press y quiero mostrarle algunos de los dibujos que he echo… se los envío en los archivos adjuntos,
Hasta pronto.
Julian
http://www.rupeztres.blogspot.com
January 16, 2007 – 4:28 pm
That was it, there was no way I could avoid things. I managed to call Ade who works with me and I told him about the meeting with Steve Rushton, I could talk with Marilo (my partner). I was suppose to go to court on monday and it was friday, things didn’t seem very well for me, a whole summer weekend spent in the cell of a police station. But things didn’t happen that way and on saturday I was produced at court and sent to Pentonville.
You know we normally think “There is no way I can go away from what I’m doing otherwise everything is going to collapse” but things are not that way, it’s a trap of your mind, of my mind!
Saturday, my first day ever inside a prison, click here to listen the transition from one place to another, and another, and another ….
January 12, 2007 – 1:56 pm
The madness of Crafty Folk continues. listen
January 8, 2007 – 5:06 pm
The explosion was horrible, 10 police officers broke into our little flat!! Kalo, my son was very scared although he was at the time only 4 months. When we were on our way down, everyone was already outside the place. I couldn’t tell how many police officers were there, maybe 50 of them?
As I mentioned at some point I had to live for 3 years with the burden of an unsettled issue with the law on my back; I knew that at some point I would have to face it, but when you are in front of it, that is a different story.
The feeling of the handcuffs on my wrists and the sound they do as the officer locked them is something that keeps repeating in my mind, things happened fast, very fast and I was expecting the worst. Want to listen to what happened next?
Billy
Ten Feet Away
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January 3, 2007 – 7:39 pm
On Thursday 21st December at 4:00pm I had my own personal Christmas exhibition that took place at the City and Hackney Mind, a nice dropping centre where people can have a cheap caribbean meal, hang around and meet other people. There is a lot of creativity in here!!
The Exhibition was a real success, everyone had a a great time! I had 7 paintings sold and a great response from my audience. As part of the exhibition I did a live recording which is here for viewers to listen at any time as well as paintings from this exhibition.
Please click here to listen to some comments and complements that people had said about this painting!
Please click here to listen to some comments and complements that people had said about this painting!
Please click here to listen to some comments and complements that people had said about this painting!
