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 In the Beginning. Show all posts
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Monday, 7 September 2020

#015: Neutral state, or In the Beginning, or Infinite potential, or Fill it with your mind

A blank canvas.

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"Cut Off" "Cut Off" or The Modern Hermit's Dream "For every ounce of light there is darkness" #artijustfound $ix Dollar Bills A Child’s First Visit to a Gallery : An Imaginary Graphic Short Story A Christmas Scene A Deal With God A Fine Balance A heart torn out vs A heart given to the world A hot drink will make it all better A lowering of confidence leading to a sort of writer's block A metaphor for our times A Monument to Humanity A note (What I’ve been thinking about today) A one-sided story A one-sided story or The Vocal and the Silent a or the Religious Experience A Perfect Place to Grow A place to stop and discuss the other works (but not this one) A room full of vacuum or a room full of air? A title waiting for an idea A View of Life Series A View of Life Series (Retrospectively) Achy but good Adulthood Adulthood (Life's impossible game) After a visit to an art gallery (and a throwback to the beginnings) Alone with your selves Always and Throughout Always different always the same An escape An idea I will never have Angela Barnes Another Christmas Scene Anti-Racist Black Square Arcade Fire Archives of Pain Are you there? Art to Aid Meditation Artist's Intentions Artist's Shit At a distance anything is possible At birth Autumn babel Barbie 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 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) Caspar David Friedrich Change is an ongoing project 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 Connect us to love Content waiting for a title coronavirus Cotton Capital COVID-19 Creating a Piece of Imaginary Art Creatures Cut Off Cut Off or The Modern Hermit's Dream David Olusoga David Shrigley Debt Deep Cuts Diptych Diptych: Then and Now Divine Youth? 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 Edvard Munch Emotional Reflection Empty and Solid English Teacher Epicentre Eva Gonzalès Ever the Embryo Ever the Embryo (Self-therapy) Exhibition Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize Favourite Wall Feedback (Self-Portrait X) Fill it with your mind Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world Finding Yourself Flower Follow The Doubter’s Path For posterity For prosperity Fourth Plint Proposal Fourth Plinth Proposal (Imaginary Art in the Real World) Frozen Puddles Gary Younge George Brecht Graphic short story Groundhog Days Guardian Happy black days Having the same idea over and over again High Tea (Formal to the end) His Dark Materials Historical Art I and II Homely Sounds html I am a work in progress I am no longer a work in progress I close my eyes I don't exist I have nothing I just get in the sea I looked inside myself once and there was nothing there I was a work in progress I'm Not Working Ichi-go ichi-e Ichigo Ichie Idea comfort blanket 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 Imaginary Art in the Real World Imaginary Comics Imagine ‘Imagine’ Immerse your soul in love Immerse your soul in love (Self-portrait XVII) In the Beginning Infinite potential Information Overload Inside Out Inspiration and Theft and the Bases of Creativity 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 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 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 landscape Laura Snapes Lauren Laverne Leon Williams Life without any Life Life's impossible game Lightbulbs Lily Allen Los Campesinos! Losing It and Loving It Losing It and Loving It (Self-portrait XVI) Love Love (Paul Auster) Love (Tom Allen) LS Lowry Mabel's Puzzle Man is forever a stranger and alone Man with a Newspaper Maneck's Refrigerator Manic Street Preachers Mary McCartney Masking Tape Matilda (1996 Film) Melancholy (after Munch and Los Campesinos!) [Self-Portrait IX] Mine alone to disgrace mirrors Multiple copies: A joint self-portrait or We are made from the same building blocks in different concentrations or sizes Musical feels in your own space and time (Let music rouse stir and move you!) My oldest obsession National Memory (History of Britain's Involvement in Slavery Edition) Natural Performace Series Negative Space Negative Space or The art in the space between works of art Neutral state Neutral state or In the Beginning or Infinite potential or Fill it with your mind New Year Nick Cave Nicky Wire No light eyes... Noah John Rondeau Not really there Nothing Nothing I Nothing I-IV Nothing II Nothing III Nothing is Lost Nothing IV Nude Omprakash's Coat of Good Times On the edge of imagination Only Murders in the Building or Bathtime Out of time and place Panic Piece Paradise is... Pass it on Paul Auster People Peter Blake Placecard (In want of an idea) Plant portrait Portraits of Artists as Everyday Objects portraiture Potential energy (finite) Preserving and Pickling Time Propaganda for Compassion and Equality Proustian Window Pulp Put yourself in Munch's place Radiant Baby Radiohead Raymond Briggs Real Surreal Real World as Imaginary Art Relief Remember Victimes René Magritte Retirement (As some family members would have me believe; with a little addition of my own) River Robert Rauschenberg Rohinton Mistry Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Running Up That Hill Scott McCloud Scratch off the surface and there is nothing there Search for artists unknown Self and Other Self-portrait Self-portrait I Self-portrait II Self-portrait II / Joint self-portrait II Self-portrait III Self-portrait III / Joint self-portrait III Self-portrait IV Self-portrait IX Self-portrait VI Self-portrait VII Self-portrait VIII Self-Portrait with Badges Self-portrait with TV and living room Self-portrait with TV and living room (Self-portrait XIX) Self-portrait X Self-Portrait XI Self-Portrait XII Self-portrait XIII Self-portrait XIV Self-portrait XIX Self-portrait XV Self-portrait XVI Self-portrait XVII Self-portrait XVIII Self-portrait XVIII / Joint Self-portrait V Self-portrait XX Setting the record straight Sex Power Love and Money Shame Shirin Neshat Silence / Escape / <Insert Your Own Title> Silence where no sound is made Silence where no sound is made (Does Silence Exist? IV) Silence where no sound is made (Does Silence Exist? IV): Physical Version Sinead O'Connor Sit outside Sky Small black flowers that grow in the sky Society Soheila Sokhanvari Solidarity 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 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 Convalescent The Creativity of the Mind The Current State of Things (Are there any absolutes in art?) 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 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 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 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 Portraits All Around Us The Power of Words (?) The Queen's Gambit The Red Hand Files The River Across Joiner Street The Sculptor The Sculpture Garden of Your Heroes The Silence of the Image The Silence of the Image: An Exhibition The Sunday Afternoon Flood The Tortured Poets Department The Ultimate Piece of Imaginary Art The Vibrancy of Colour 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 World's Biggest Paving Slab Then and Now There is never redemption any fool can regret yesterday 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 Tom Allen Tom Phillips Tracey Emin Train Stations Series Tree Untitled 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? Whatever else you see here this is the future to avoid Wherever the river may take you Which boxes fit in you? (Or would you rather burn all the boxes and their labels?) White Paintings Whole life portrait Wickerman Will the rebirth happen soon? Windows Windows (Self-Portrait XIII) Winter Witness Witness (Does Silence Exist? V) Work Together (A Socialist Tapestry) Worry and After Worry Yinka Ilori Yoko Ono You are not alone You are your own experience 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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