iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Time travelling; under a blanket, on my saggy old sofa, with the autumn sun on my face. I’ll soon be able to climb hillforts again. Until then, I will feed my soul with reading, drawing and daydreaming. Onwards.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Interpreting the design (from a 5 x 5 cm illustration in a book) took far longer than actually drawing it, and involved many failed attempts. Thank fuck for graph paper. (I’ve not use a ruler for the straight (black) lines because these days, I prefer the imperfections of human-created stuff)

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(It’s A2ish sized, folded in half - because my scanner is only A3. When it’s finished, I’ll piece together the two scanned halves somehow)

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Work in progress (to be painted, once I’ve decided what’s going in the middle). Detail from a hand-drawn/sketched (not traced) adaptation of a Romano-British mosaic at Aldborough, North Yorkshire. . . . . . #Celticart #Celticknotwork #RomanoBritishart

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My kaleidoscopic ode to Britain’s scaffolders; created from photos taken inside Manchester’s Printworks during redevelopment in January 2023.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My kaleidoscopic ode to Britain’s scaffolders; created from photos taken inside Manchester’s Printworks during redevelopment in January 2023.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Demolition of Twyford’s Etruria Works today (including a double exposure), interspersed with photos I took seven years ago - on the same day. . . . Thank you Andy for the nudge, and for coming along to give your moral support - despite your memories of the place being anything but fond.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The most heartbreaking photos I’ve ever taken, but it was something I needed to do. Goodbye old friend. . . . . . #demolition #graffiti #industrialarchitecture #industrialheritage #Twyfords

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you :-) yeah nights have been pretty horrendous - I’ve never known pain like it. Good for building mental resilience though! 😂

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks for your concern, Graham :-) I’ve had bad sciatica for about six weeks.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There were dragonflies and goldcrests; and the heady scent of Himalayan balsam, warmed by the autumn sun, lingered in the wood. Hopefully, later, prescribed opioids will bring much needed sleep and calming dreamscapes. Progress.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Church Lawton double exposures. I dragged my dodgy leg out for a wander around my favourite place this afternoon. It was painful but not agony, and far outweighed by the sheer joy of reconnecting with nature after a month of staring at four walls.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Also featured - here - are Llyn Cerrig Bach lake in Anglesey and The Wrekin hillfort in Shropshire; both of which were final battlegrounds during the Roman invasion of Celtic Britain; a subject very close to my heart and the source of much of my creative inspiration.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*The sea footage - along with many of the images in the full video - was captured during my solo driving tour of Ireland’s ‘Wild Atlantic Way’ back in 2022. I had a feeling it would come in useful one day!

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thank you Carl, and The Dandelion Curse, for the opportunity to collaborate on such a wonderful and soul-filling project. . . Check out the band’s Facebook page for details of upcoming gigs, and check THEM out!

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The song evokes images/feelings of endings and endlessness. How they differ but are the same. How nothing lasts forever but the end does. The “flatline” of horizons - at sea, on land and in the non-physical realm. The “final destination” in many of my physical and spiritual wanderings.*

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I was only too happy - honoured in fact - to oblige. I’ve also been a fan of his work, since being blown away by one of the band’s first gigs at Stoke-on-Trent’s Artisan Tap.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It was love - and inspiration - at first listen when Carl (Locker) sent me the song, asking if I’d consider creating a visual element for it; incorporating my photography/visual art (of which he is a fan), mixed in with some band footage he also sent me.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A snippet of my video for The Dandelion Curse’s stunningly beautiful ‘Out of My Mind (I Failed)’ - the full version of which is available on their Facebook page. . . . . . #Newmusic #Independentartist #MusicPromotion #MusicVideo #CreativeProduction

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you J F Burgess for the very kind invitation! My camera and I would be delighted to attend. (Hopefully I will have slept by then) Ticket link on Jon’s Facebook page.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

More music visuals incoming - l’m currently working on two videos (no spoilers) while navigating the incapacitation of a herniated disk. Luckily, nobody’s in a hurry (and who knew that crippling pain and sleep deprivation could be such a rich source of creative inspiration?)

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

(The location - specifically the swing, and Andy jumping off it mid-flight - also features in his video for Trains, Planes & Automobiles (on his YouTube channel))

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Portrait shoot with Andy Gower - a year ago today, at Six Towns Viewing Point. Photos 6, 7 and 10 went on to be used in my designs for his album cover, EP and album launch gig poster. . . I’m still pinching myself. . . . . . #AndyGower #Portraitphotography #Albumcover #Gigposter #Stoke-on-Trent

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My brilliant nephew’s brilliant band. Check em out. linktr.ee/cadeband?utm...

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For once in my life, I was actually there 😂 (at Wythenshawe Park) (Also for once in my life, I was too busy dancing to take any photos) Thank you #TheProdigy for the best gig of my life 🐜 🖤 Gig 🎥 & 📷: Alex Konca

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Us: “I can’t be arsed getting to the front” Also us: . . #TheProdigy #WythenshawePark

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Today marks the anniversary of the last day (in 1978) that a Potteries bottle oven was kindled and fired for the last time. At the height of the pottery industry, approximately 2,000 of these iconic structures dominated the city’s skyline. Now, only 47 remain. #bottleovens #bottlekilns #bottlekiln

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“The entire landscape was illuminated and transformed by these unique pyrotechnics of labour atoning for its grime, and dull, weird sounds, as of the breathings and sighings of gigantic nocturnal creatures, filled the enchanted air” - Arnold Bennett, ‘Anna of the Five Towns’ #PotteriesBottleOvenDay

🎨 & 📷: me (one of my paintings, overlaid with one of my photographs)

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The film is over a decade old, but even more relevant now. Also worth watching is his series ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’ - “an emotional history of the modern world” - available on iPlayer.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“So much of the news this year has been hopeless, depressing, and above all - confusing; to which the only response is “oh dear”.” In ‘Oh Dearism II’, Adam Curtis suggests that this defeatist response has become a central part of a new system of political control. youtu.be/gKHye_wlpOs?...

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Oh Dearism II by Adam Curtis (2014)

YouTube video by Chris Nix

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Remember this, as you wade through all the fearmongering crap in your newsfeeds.

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Drop me a message if you’d like to make a purchase. I don’t have an online shop yet but may open one if I get enough interest. Prints are £10 individually (max A3 size), or if you buy a set of four I’ll throw in one of them for free :-) . . . . . #abstractart #printsforsale #wallart #wallartforsale

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Two sets of prints winging their way to my lovely friends Vix and Carl. Thank you so much for your support! These are ‘eNiGaMi’ and ‘Dead Tree & Telegraph Pole’ More available on the GALLERY and VIRTUALITY pages of my website @ FionaKonca.wordpress.com (link in bio)

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

These are absolutely wonderful - especially the ones along the canal and of the bottle kilns. Photos taken during the construction of the D-Road in Stoke-on-Trent from 1975 to 1979, by the fella I met on the train (see previous post). flic.kr/s/aHsmLaRSLn

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Stoke D Road - Queensway

Scanned from 35 mm negatives taken 1975 to 1979 (kevinterry56@gmail.com)

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Also on the train home, I received an email confirming a job offer; working from home - writing reports - on a part-time and flexible basis! I’ve accepted, of course. I should go away more often!

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Had a lovely chat with a couple on the train home. Turns out the fella - now a street photographer - was a QS with Tarmac in the 70s and worked on the construction of the D-Road!

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

24 wonderful hours of non-stop conversation and laughter with me ol’ school muckers darn sarf (much of which was spent setting up this photo). Thank you so much Caroline, Hazel and Kate - I bloody love ya xx

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go, you go…)” - E. E. Cummings

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Fiona Konca @fiona-konca.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The highlight - besides Wayne’s wonderfully diverse set - was undoubtedly the gang of scooter boys who stopped by to join the collective effervescence and outpouring of love for “incredible” father and “universally adored” musician Nathan, while on route to Brighton.

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