It's a word I picked up from Suely Rolnik and Felix Guattari's brilliant 'Molecular Revolution in Brazil' (2008 MIT Press) text and it seems so apt in terms of the ways in which ideas and projects appear to be connecting to each other in my life at present. The area where I live in South London used to be almost artist-free - I could wander around at weekends to my heart's content and not run the risk of running into anyone who I knew from my professional life during the weekdays which I would tend to spend running from arts project to arts project often East London centred or north London bound.  Now its a case of bumping into related things at every step. Not only has Brixton Market been (justifiably if belatedly) infiltrated by design types occupying stores p(r)opping up shops and turning empty spaces into galleries alongside open source fairtrade coffee stalls, large-eyed fishmongered tables, handmade beef pies and Caribbean patties -  but also in Camberwell where I ventured this morning (seeking some fishballs, jack fruit and lychees from the Chinese supermarket) there's now a gallery showing concrete visual art. 'Crystallisations - Making Order Visible' is an exhibition by Raymond Brownell at GX Gallery of painting informed by geometry and mathematics on walls accompanied by explanations of by Fibonacci patterns. 

The new South London 'syncretic movement' continues  at Herne Hill where I finally go into a shop I've noticed for the past few months and where I find the price tags on the bric a brac and worn leather furniture etc has been tied on using ribbons honouring Senhor do Bonfim the sort of which I'd last touched when last in Salvador (ah saudade). So among the worn leather swivel chairs and gilt mirrors which define the right kind of post modernist furniture store down south london way we now have soft rag rugs and chair throws made from linen you can buy for less than you can in London on the warm streets of Northern Bahia.  Long may the global economy thrive if its bringing a bit of St Bonfim to Brixton.