#094: Retirement (As some family members would have me believe; with a little addition of my own)

Oil on canvas.  A far-reaching landscape of sunshine, fields and trees.  On the horizon, though, are dark clouds, and darker lands

#093: Preserving and Pickling Time

Imagine shelves lined with pickling jars - the sort you get in medical museums containing animals preserved for all time.  But inside is a moment in time - a single, completely unique moment that, to you, was one worthy of remembrance and storage.  

Or perhaps these could be special memory balls, with different colours meaning different types of memories, floating around and above you, waiting to be plucked from the air and viewed.  Or film clips, photographs, paintings, sculptures, writing or another artistic response.  Physical items to help recall a moment or memory.

If you were to stop and remember this moment forever, what would you remember about what you can see, smell, feel… and how would you preserve it?

And what moments in your life would you like to remember and record?  Take a moment to recall a few - remember each one - the sights, smells, sounds, feelings - and think about how you would preserve it.  Even if only in your own mind.

Now try and think about this every day so that you are better placed to remember and record special and key events.  And, of course, to get the most out of them at the time - in the moment - to make them all the more memorable.  

To preserve and pickle moments in time.  

An imaginary art response to learning about Ichigo Ichie [ 期一会].

#092: Waiting for life in liminal times, or "And my life is coming/But I don't know when"

Oil on canvas.  A train station scene showing the station building flat on from the opposite platform in a two-platform station.  Only one person can be seen and they are inside the Waiting Room, sitting on a bench and staring straight ahead out of the painting.  A sign shows that the station is called Liminal Halt.

#091: Whole life portrait

A series of pictures of someone throughout their life printed on transparencies of the same size, laid on top of one another, framed, and backlit.