Decoding Static is home to the writing, art and photography of Andy Harrod. Including the Guardian First Book nominated tearing at thoughts.
We can’t escape our lives. During my invisible grief it can feel as if I am not living, that I am just stuck and my life is waiting to start again. Partly because the grief can be a knockout punch and partly because I am not honouring my grief or myself. Instead I try to […]
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It was as if life continued around me, around us, but we were stuck in this no-children land, as if we had slipped into another world, fading. Daily, it felt like a fight to be, it became automatic just to function. I dragged myself out running, for peace, for anger, for something to do, to […]
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On awakening to now, we are not only present with the good experiences, the happy times, but also the sad, the experiences that break your heart. I found myself asking ‘How can such sorrow come from such love?’
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I first started Decoding Static when I was working on a novel, with the working title, Deception. Deception is still important to me and the novel is still bubbling away inside of me. The current social political climate of false news, claims and propaganda hints at the relevance of Deception, more so the demand for […]
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