A blank canvas.
The Haberdashery of Imaginary Art
Descriptions of artworks to create in your imagination. Some could become real. Some never should. Some are ultimately mindfulness exercises. However you see them, the experience for each viewer is unique. Resource List. Manifesto.
Monday, 1 September 2025
Monday, 25 August 2025
#312: What they think is real
Text reads: "We have to fight what isn’t real or true," above a gif of an animated puppet show showing the villains of the day.
Monday, 18 August 2025
#311: A Sunny Day
Imagine a sunny day.
And what you would do to make you happiest to enjoy, or avoid, that day.
Close your eyes, imagine and, hopefully, smile.
Or, if it is sunny, put this into practice.
Monday, 11 August 2025
#310: Echo Chambers
A large space through which have been set up several paths that fork several times. At each fork the visitor is sent on a route according to their beliefs. Each route ends in a space with chairs, tables and refreshments where visitors are encouraged to sit and socialise.
Monday, 4 August 2025
#309: Eavesdropping to an End
Listen in to the conversation of someone you don’t know and use what you hear to create a picture of them and their life.
Monday, 28 July 2025
#308: Vague surrealism
What you can remember of a recent, or memorable, dream recorded as art.
Oil on canvas. In the dark corner of a bedroom, an alien with an elephant’s head, holding a ray gun, the end of which looks like a large light, stands still on a square plinth in front of two cupboards at right angles to one another. It is on guard, ready to shoot anything that moves. In the foreground, a child is awake in bed, keeping absolutely still and rigid, a look of fear on their face. On the floor is a book.
Monday, 21 July 2025
#307: They got a skin and they put me in it
A person being pushed and pulled and forced into a skin suit by a group of men in regular suits.