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.

Showing posts with label David Bowie. Show all posts
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Monday, 1 June 2026

#349: I'm afraid of their words

It could be a flag, it could be a person, it could be any other symbol, sign or signifier that fits the title.

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Monday, 25 May 2026

#348: I'm afraid I can't and I'm afraid I can

One person.  Two scared faces.

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Monday, 4 May 2026

#345: Conversation Piece

A conversation with a work of art.  Imagined or otherwise.

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Labels: Ali Smith, Conversation Piece, David Bowie, How to Live an Artful Life, Katy Hessel

Monday, 27 April 2026

#344: *That* thing

Something that fulfills your needs just by being there.

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Beauty (All at once) Bedroom Walls Beef Bees Belief Between the Clock and the Bed Birthday Black Dog I: Black dog's a-coming tonight Black Dog Ideas I and II: Black dog's a-coming tonight and His Black Dog Black Dog II: His Black Dog Black Dog on My Shoulder Black Square Blank Canvas Series Blank Space (Entry for the Faber / Observer / Comica Graphic Short Story Competition) Bliss Blur Bob Dylan Bodysnatchers Brain Fog Bright light closed eyes Bringing out the light to dispel the dark Building Blocks (Pre-memory) But Daddy I Love Him Calming view Summer 2021 (Gone) Carcassonne Caspar David Friedrich Change is an ongoing project Chat GPT Cheers to Me Chicken with Plums Childhood Choose Choose your title Choose your title: Peace and Quiet Diptych / Underwater Silence Diptych / Swimming Pool Christmas Cildo Meireles Clever Title Close My Eyes Close your eyes Close your eyes and it all comes rushing back Closed eyes (Art anywhere anytime) Collective (and Individual) Memory and Forgetting Colour your emotions (Inside Out) Comfort Rites Commuter Coach Cartoons Connect us to love Consensual Hallucination Content waiting for a title Conversation Piece coronavirus Cotton Capital COVID-19 Creating a Piece of Imaginary Art Creatures Cut Off Cut Off or The Modern Hermit's Dream David Bowie David Olusoga David Shrigley Debt Deep Cuts Déjà vu Desk Dina Amer Dioramas of Good Feelings Diptych Diptych: Then and Now Divine Youth? Doctor Who Does Silence Exist? Does Silence Exist? I (A question that has already been answered) Does Silence Exist? II Does Silence Exist? III Does Silence Exist? IV Does Silence Exist? V Doorways Dorothea Tanning Eavesdropping to an End Echo Chambers Education (It is what you make of it and what you do with it) Edvard Munch Either ignore it or celebrate it (What is to be done?) 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I'm afraid I can't and I'm afraid I can I'm Afraid of Americans I'm afraid of their words I'm Alive in Crowds I'm Not Working Ichi-go ichi-e Ichigo Ichie Idea comfort blanket Idea for QR Code Prompts on Public Transport Posters IF If I was brave enough If I was brave enough: An imaginary entry for The Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2020 If you can’t stand up for people in life don’t do it in death If you see darkness look away Imaginary Art in the Real World Imaginary Comics Imagine ‘Imagine’ Immerse your soul in love Immerse your soul in love (Self-portrait XVII) In plain air In the Beginning Infinite potential Information Overload Inside Out Inspiration and Theft and the Bases of Creativity Introvert's Space Is that all there is? It is always New Year It is different every day but always the same It is what it is and it is beautiful for it IT'S MY BODY John Lennon John Parish John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey John William Waterhouse Joint self-portrait Joint self-portrait I Joint self-portrait II Joint self-portrait III Joint self-portrait IV Joint self-portrait V Jonathan Jones Joseph Wright of Derby Journey and talk with your teenage self Joy coursing Kate Bush Katy Hessel Kazimir Malevich Keith Haring Lament for the weak for they will be crushed vs The weak die young and right now we crouch to make them strong Landmark/Birthday landscape Laura Snapes Lauren Laverne Leon Williams Leonardo da Vinci Let memories come to you Life is a solo or is it? Life without any Life Life's impossible game Lightbulbs Lily Allen Living Landscape Living Landscape II Living Seascape Living Seascape (Land's End) Los Campesinos! 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IV): Physical Version Sinead O'Connor Sit outside Sky Small black flowers that grow in the sky Society Soheila Sokhanvari Solidarity Solitude Spiral Staircase of Moods Spring Stars Stranger Things Street Spirit (Fade Out) Study Summer Sunrise Sunset Support (An Exhibition of Prescribed Experiences to Help Visitors Understand How They Feel) Tahereh Saffarzadeh Take What You Need (After Tom Phillips) Talk with your teenage self Talking Tasteful Nude Tasteful Nude Reading List Tate Tate Modern Tate Modern Turbine Hall Proposal Taylor Swift Teeange Self Teenage Years Telling it like it is Telling it like it is or Setting the record straight Terry Callier That moment will always exist The Approaching Silence The art in the space between works of art The Art of Living Forever The Art of Looking Through Windows The Best Tears of Your Life The British Museum of the Future The Buffer (Conpartmentalising) The Convalescent The Creativity of the Mind The Current State of Things (Are there any absolutes in art?) The Deep Blue Okay The Diagnosis The Dry Well of Imaginary Art The earth stripped bare by its inhabitants The End of the Golden Period (and The Start of the Dialogue with The Past) The Eternal Ever-Changing Oil Painting (Alternate I) The Eternal Ever-Changing Oil Painting (Alternate II) The Eternal Ever-Changing Oil Painting (Alternate III) The Eternal Ever-Changing Oil Painting The Filter The Flag of Your Nation The Full-Length Mirror (La Psyché) The Future The Greatest Landscape The gulfs between humans and the hopes for the future The Hands of Control The Human Spirit The Imaginary Art Immersive Experiences The Imaginary Art Manifesto The Imaginary Art Visual Manifesto The Impassable Place The information that you need The joy of bubbles The Landscapes of Your Life The long slide to death in old age as viewed by a reasonably young person (38) The Magic Circle The Masterplan The Meek Will Inherit The Meeting The Modern Hermit's Dream The Moon The Morning Tide Fills the Channels The Museum of the Future The Narcissist The Negative Zone The Past The Portraits All Around Us The Power of Words (?) The Queen's Gambit The Quietus The Red Hand Files The River Across Joiner Street The Sculptor The Sculpture Garden of Your Heroes The Shop Triptych: Shop Window / Shop Floor / Out the back The Silence of the Image The Silence of the Image: An Exhibition The Stacks (Scrambled (and added to) by Chat GPT) The Sunday Afternoon Flood The Tortured Poets Department The Ultimate Piece of Imaginary Art The Vibrancy of Colour The Vitruvian Man The Vocal and the Silent The Void (A Dream A Manifesto Offshoot) the void since the last time and what the void was filled with The Workers at the Gates The World's Biggest Paving Slab Then and Now There is never redemption any fool can regret yesterday There She Goes My Beautiful World They got a skin and they put me in it This Could Be Texas this here’s the summer (here's the summer) This is my canvas This Is Yesterday This moment will always exist Tides Tides II Titles to explain or change an artwork To plant a seed To plant a seed (The Imaginary Art Visual Manifesto) Tom Allen Tom Phillips Tracey Emin Train Stations Series Tree Untitled Vague surrealism Vibrant escapism Waiting for art Waiting for life in liminal times Waiting for life in liminal times or "And my life is coming/But I don't know when" Waiting for the art of the play Walk through the heather War Art Waterfall What do you see? What they think is real What would you like to see here? What would you like to see here? 2 What would you like to see here? 3 Whatever else you see here this is the future to avoid Whatever you want it to represent it shall be Wherever the river may take you Which boxes fit in you? (Or would you rather burn all the boxes and their labels?) White Paintings Who Will Buy Whole life portrait Why do I have to scrub off where I come from in order to fit in to your vision of an equal society? Wickerman Will the rebirth happen soon? Windows Windows (Self-Portrait XIII) Winter Wish Witness Witness (Does Silence Exist? V) Work Together (A Socialist Tapestry) Worry and After Worry Yes Yinka Ilori Yoko Ono You are not alone You are your own experience You have to do the work to earn the rest You should see my armoury (Self-portrait XX) You're beautiful Your Imaginary Art Space Your Psyche Your Shadow(s) (After Robert Rauschenberg) Zadie Smith
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