Hello again. Did you get a bit of a bite of BITE. If you did, how did it taste? I’ve been away, thinking about it. Anyway, now I’m back, sleeping on a sofa at the back of this blog & wondering what to do next. But, while I’m wondering, I thought I’d try to make myself useful. So take a look at this: 
Here’s two images. The one on the left was created by someone twenty two months old. I don’t know what the intention is behind the picture -or even if there is one- but I like it. The other was created by someone thirty three or thirty four years old. It’s a picture of a woman -maybe a mother, who knows?- teaching a child to stand. I like this picture too. Both pictures/images seem to me to be vital and vibrant, warm, emotionally expansive and full of life. And what lies between the ages and the intentions of the two artists is a lifetime – a lifetime of learning, forgetting, practicing, learning, thinking, practicing, reflecting, feeling, thinking etc etc etc until -like a juggler juggling cigar boxes or an acrobat balancing on the soles of someone else’s feet or a jazz musician improvising within an unfolding moment- the action is informed by the lifetime that has led up to it. Anyway, I don’t know who created the image on the left. I found it on the net thanks to that nice Mr Google. The one on the right is by Rembrandt -a name that’s no doubt familiar to you but one with which I have to confess I was unfamiliar. But then what do you expect from someone whose made of nothing but a few pixels, some empty harlequin clobber and other people‘s imagination?
Anyway, the point I’m trying to get at about lives and lifetimes and the names of the people who’ve led them is this. Look at this list of names of individuals and organisations and think of the connecting threads of the lives that these names represent. All of them contributed to BITE in one way or another and there’s more than a hundred there already and there’s more still I have to collect. Now no one on this list knows everyone else’s name, let alone the person it belongs to, not even the instigators and organisers of the event. But even so, they all contributed, or rather WE all contributed. And we’re all of part of something bigger. We’re all a single note in a musical score, all one step in a dance that’s bigger than any one of us. But the music only sounds the way that it does, and the dance only goes the way that it does, because we’re part of it. So big thanks and much respect to all and apologies for spelling names wrong, missing names off and/or including them twice…
So here you go. Creative souls, one and all…
JOSH FYFE, SOPHIE CARTWRIGHT, CONNOR EVANS, RICARDO TABORDA, CALUM BROWN, GRACE MCLEOD, MEGHARI KEY, RACHEL WALL, HARRIET REED, ANGELICA PANGON, JORDAN MARSHALL, EMMA WATSON, JACK BELCHER, DANIEL FORDHAM, CARLA SMITH, HANNAH TOMLINSON, JACK MILLER, JORDAN CARTWRIGHT, MAYA HOOD, NICOLE LINDEN, DUNCAN RAE, SACHA TIFFIN, LEAH HODGSON, HARRY PHILLIPSON, DANIEL BROWN, IRENE ROBERTS GREEN & BISHOP HARVEY GOODWIN SCHOOL, BEN FOX, CRU FOX, ANDY BAINBRIDGE, ANDY’S MUM, OLIVIA TOPPIN, KAREN BASSET, MIRANDA JENKINS, BEN GATES, CARLO CASTELVECCHI, DEITER WADESON, DEBBIE ISMAY, LEAH FLANDERS, JILL FROM GONG WONG COMMUNITY DISCO BAND, MIKE SMITH, DAVID HASSON, PAULINE ROBSON, BECCA ROBERTS, DARREN, HANNAH STEWART, BEN WOHL, RICH WEBSTER, NICK PEMBERTON, ALASTAIR SIMMONDS, STEVEN PEARSON, CARL SOWERBY, ANN WILSON, DAVID HESSON, PAULINE ROBSON, PAUL TAYLOR, PEADAR SWEENEY, DEBBIE SWEENEY, CILLIAN SWEENEY, LINDSAY WALKER, TRACY WALKER, ANDY ELLIOT, DARREN HORNE, ANDREW WATSON, JOHNNY WRIGHT, IAN HINDE, IAN GARRISON, ANDREW BEATTY, JAMIE BARNES, KESWICK MUSEUM, KARL O’SHAUGHNESSY, ZOE ZEGVALDT, CHRIS HARVEY, BECCA TURNBULL, MEGAN BOTHIN, HOPE GIBSON, JOHNNY CARSWELL, KAYLEIGH SUNLEY, NIKKI NIXON, JOE CONNOR, CODY EDWARDS, HOWARD WALKER, CHRIS STONES, ME, AMY WALKER, SUE STOCKWELL, UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA, TONY RUTHERFORD, GEOFFREY LEUNG, FIONA POWLEY, MARGARET JAMES BARBER, YOU, GORDON SWINDLEHURST, NICOLA REED, LINDSAY WILLIAMS AND PIMPFISH CLOTHING, ARCADE ARTS, BRINDLEY HD, FRANCESCA HALFACREE AND ALL THE DANCERS OF ARGENTINE TANGO AT THEIR MILONGA, CARLISLE CATHEDRAL, GEORGE WALLACE, GERALDINE GREEN, KATE BRUNDRETT, DI CLAY, MJ CLAY, EUPHORIC CIRCUS, FREEMAN AND FINE, ANALISE NEUBAUER, KATIE MCCUTCHEON, LAURA HAYNES, WILL JAMES, STAGECOACH, MARGARET BARBER, SPEAKEASY AT THE SOURCE, IAN MCNICHOLL, TAZEEM ABBAS, CARLISLE RENAISSANCE, DAVE THE FLUTE, TULLIE HOUSE AND CARLISLE CITY COUNCIL, FIONA VENABLES, AMY WALKER, GUY PAWLE, EMMA, HELEN TUCK, KATHERINE TUCK, THE BANK GALLERY, WEST WALLS STUDIOS, SUE STOCKWELL, JAN KELSEY, ZOE GADD, MICHAEL DAVIES, EDGE CERAMICS, JUSTYNA SKOWRONEK, NICK DODDS, JOHNNY LAMBERT, JAMES DAVIS, KELCEY BRAINE, GRAEME GLEASE, STEPHEN GRAHAM, ALEX HALFPENNY, MARJORY MACARTHUR, MORVEN MCDADE, LUKE SIMEON MILNE, STEVE PARKHOUSE, REX, NAOMI ROBINSON, TOM SINCLAIR, CHEE WOONG, BEX HARVEY, NATHAN ELLIOT, BA HONS ANIMATION, BA HONS FILM & TELEVISION PRODUCTION, DIPLOMA FOUNDATION STUDIES ART AND DESIGN, BA FINE ARTS YR 2, BA HONS CREATIVE WRITING, GRAPHIC DESIGN & GAMES DESIGN, BA PHOTOGRAPHY, IAN MORETON, JUDITH ON THE DESK AT TULLIE HOUSE WHEN THE LECKY FAILED, AND ALL THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE DIFFERENT WORKSHOPS OR ANYONE WHO JUST HAPPENED BY AND ENJOYED THE VIBE
