#232: The Hands of Control

Oil on canvas.  All white paint on a black background.  Hands with lightning shaped arms reach towards a body curled up and helpless.  Text on the frame reads: the hands of control / over both bodies and minds / massage just themselves.

#231: a, or the, Religious Experience

A picture of a group performing the same, or joint, activity; or all in attendance somewhere together, their focus in the same direction.  All seem comforted and happy to be there - although they might not show this in the way you would expect.

(or an ornate sword - one edge sharp and plain, the other blunt but beautifully carved). 

#230: Mine alone to disgrace

A name is written on a wall (for example, Taylor Swift) which is protected completely by a locked frame.  The means to deface this artwork is placed in a locked cabinet underneath.  Only the person whose name it is (for example, Taylor Swift) has means to access the artwork and cabinet and they (for example, Taylor Swift) have an open invitation to come and deface their own name, should they wish to.

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Snapes, Laura (2024) Breakups, fantasies and her most cutting lyrics: inside Taylor’s Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/19/taylor-swift-album-the-tortured-poets-department-lyrics (Accessed: 19th April 2024).

Swift, Taylor (2024) ‘But Daddy I Love Him,’ The Tortured Poets Department [602465081343]. US,Republic Records.

Although the title and idea comes from a lyric in the above Taylor Swift song, it is thanks to the above Laura Snapes article that this idea came about.

#229: Society

A cage that we are all locked in together and cannot escape from.  

Imagine a fight breaks out.

What happens next?

How do we carry on?

#228: Homely Sounds

Close your eyes and think of home.

What do you hear?

#227: A Perfect Place to Grow

Your preferred environment.

#226: Proustian Window

A stained glass window in the shape of a madeleine.  The window depicts the triggers that would take you through and the memories you would discuss on the other side.