#268: Walk through the heather

Get out of your comfort zone (never to return, or perhaps, with the aim of not returning) and explore something you would love to do but which has eluded you, or you have been too scared to take the first step towards.

Walk through the heather until you find yourself on the other side looking back, satisfied.

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Carter, Daisy (2024) English Teacher: Home is where the heart is.  Available at:  https://diymag.com/interview/english-teacher-this-could-be-texas-march-2024 (Accessed: 13th September 2024).

English Teacher (2024) ‘This Could Be Texas’, This Could Be Texas [5885311]. UK, Island Records.

English Teacher (2024) ‘The Best Tears of Your Life', This Could Be Texas [5885311]. UK, Island Records.

#267: Nothing

Everything.

#266: An escape

A bust of a person, their eyes closed.  In the person’s forehead is the opening to a tunnel which continues into the head, tapering to a point, a small light at the end.  At the start of the tunnel is a small figure walking into it.

#265: Ever the Embryo (Self-therapy)

Oil on canvas.  A copy of Ever the Embryo: a painting of an adult inside an egg.  An egg, though, has been painted over the chest in this version.  Inside this smaller egg are scenes showing why the adult feels like they are ever the embryo.  

What scenes would be in your egg (if this resonates)? feelings of safety, never feeling like you have grown (small child with man’s face at work?), feelings of separation, of not belonging, not being able to belong, feelings of being apart from the world, communicating and living separately, little things showing the same over and over?

#264: Ever the Embryo

Oil on canvas.  Painting of an adult inside an egg.

#263: Your Psyche

A full length-mirror on a wooden stand. 

Carved into the frame above the mirror is the following text:

Search for yourself.  Your true self.  

“So much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it.” - George Eliot.

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Gonzalès, Eva (about 1869-70) The Full-Length Mirror (La Psyché) [Oil on canvas]. National Gallery, London.

Jones, Jonathan (2024) Insight! Sensitivity! Genius! Our critic picks the top five masterpieces in the National Gallery. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/08/national-gallery-top-five-five-masterpieces-van-gogh-blooms (Accessed: 9th May 2024).

#262: Spiral Staircase of Moods

A three floor spiral staircase into which the only natural light comes from a skylight at the very top.  There are round lights running along the wall at intervals to the bottom but these are not very bright, and the doors on each floor only allow a small amount of dim light through at the best of times (often there is none as the lights are activated by movement sensors and will only switch on when there are people around).  There is shining bright light at the top but at the bottom it is dark.  Not pitch dark, there is always some light but there is always the danger that you could bump your head on the underside of the stone steps if you wander into the empty space to be found there.