The Manuel of Lost Ideas 

a collection of documents and related images that arrived anonymously at the Institute of Cultural enquiry in 1955. 

a historical manuscript of largely unknown material, loose scraps of paper and drawings alongside typewritten commentary by various contributors. 

the case with the word " Lake" painted on the front 

Aturo Ott is one of the persons discussing and commenting on the material in the case his type written notes go alongside the various material in the case he was of Anglo- German origin. 

Portrait possibly of Ott within the manuel

"Ott's comments paint a picture of a rather solitary autodidact, with at least a rudimnetary knowledge of such diverse subjects such as painting and photographic technique, the Kabbala, the I Ching, and Greek mythology." 

Ott commentary: Perhaps the single most beautiful leaf in the Manual, but highly deceptive. What at first appears to be a photograph of a galaxy or star cluster reveals on closer examination the tripartite structure of a puffball or dandelion gone to seed. Yet it is not, in fact, a photograph, nor does it depict an organic life form. According to a note pinned to this leaf, it is a mezzotint etching of an image that came to contributor A in a "yogic trance". A describes it as "the world tree unfolding in reverse . . . crown first and roots last, leaves going up like sparks and roots shooting down like rockets. The [3] roots, representing Creator Preserver and Destroyer, give stability to the world and keep it from crumpling back into itself once it reaches its full extension. I could see that it was billions of miles across, and yet it was contained in my inner vision. I held all of it--o joy!--inside myself."

Manual of Lost Ideas, ICI Za7 

extract from http://www.othervoices.org/3.1/mli/index.php#

Farmer - Photograph by August Sander

Postcard of Lullington Church (smallest Church in England)

Unknown artist's drawing

James Castle soot and spit drawing 

Dead Trees with lake in the distance 2011 (my painting)

Forest with Purple sky 2011 (my painting)

Kettles Yard hold the biggest collection of works by the Cornish artist Alfred Wallis, presented in humble surroundings as if it were a home including antique furniture. 

Jim Ede founder and owner of Kettles Yard "an art gallery or museum, nor ... simply a collection of works of art reflecting my taste or the taste of a given period. It is, rather, a continuing way of life from these last fifty years, in which stray objects, stones, glass, pictures, sculpture, in light and in space, have been used to make manifest the underlying stability."

Observe in short, how transient and trivial is all mortal life; yesterday a drop of semen, tomorrow a handful of spices. Spend therefore, these fleeting moments on earth as Nature would have you spend them, and then go to your rest with a good grace, as an olive falls in its season, with a blessing for the earth that bore it and a tahnksgiving to the tree that gave it life

Marcus Aurelius Meditations, recorded his passing thoughts, the maxims, the musings of life and death of a sensitive and humble mind. Trained in Stoic philosophy which contributed to Christianity. Here I found and material to add alongside my collections to accompany my work.

together they create a cosmos of faraway places.

collection as repository
repository of pictorial resource
"As a work of sythesis the Atlas is an "organism" that continues to evolve and change...much of thinking underlies Gerhard Richters painting finds expression in the photographs, sketches photos and collages collected here.
Collection accompanied by a small catalogue booklet.

Cirencester Cathedral tablets 

Orford Church, Suffolk texts and illustrations showing the changes the Church has undergone.

and return to being nobody

West Sussex, near Racton

Walter Benjamins 'Arcade Project'

For 48 Portraits (Biographies)

Atlas Sheet: 38 of 783 

Atlas Sheet: 195 of 783, Seascapes photo collages

Atlas Sheet:196 of 783

Atlas Sheet: 196 of 783

Atlas Sheet: 198 of 783

Seascapes

1972

Atlas Sheet: 200

Richter has laid down a series of images which persistently pursues a narrative which seems to circle continually around the same thing and can be " read" in several directions.

In Atlas, he links his creative artistic work his paintings and other visual works such as photographs, sketches and collages together to create a mass of imagery his own collection. How do I deal with this in relation to my collection.

" all collections are art, at least for the person that assembles them " Susan Hiller

Marplins museum Shoreham-By-Sea, West Sussex 12th - or early 13th century possibly the oldest secular building in England, now holds Shoreham's maritime history. 

Prison graffiti

Alfred Wallis, Three sailing ships, Two steamships and Godfrey Lighthouse 

c. 1935 -1938  

oil and pencil on card

wooden Russian Church

before

after

notes on Paul Nash from notebook

visit to Lullington Church

visit to Dungeness