To help you deal with how uncomfortable things are. A cloaking device for your mind.
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, 17 June 2024
Monday, 10 June 2024
#237: Your Shadow(s) (After Robert Rauschenberg)
One very large white monochrome painting is on the wall. A spotlight is trained on the painting and the viewer is encouraged to stand between the light and the painting. The spotlight can be moved around the space and gels are available to change the colour of the light - or the viewer can use their own light source. The viewer is also encouraged to use props and record their work with photographs or video.
Monday, 3 June 2024
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
#235: Close your eyes and it all comes rushing back
Try to transport yourself to a happy place in time, just for a while.
Use triggers if you like - photos, objects… or go to the place itself and fix on the things that haven’t changed.
Then close your eyes and…
Monday, 20 May 2024
Monday, 13 May 2024
#233: Sit outside
Sit outside of society, of everything, of your own life even, for a while; sit outside of the place where you are right now, as much as you can - imagine you are behind a veil that keeps you separate and experience life as if from the outside.
Wait.
Watch.
See.
Record your findings.
Monday, 6 May 2024
#232: The Hands of Control
Oil on canvas. All white paint on a black background. Hands with lightning shaped arms reach towards a body curled up and helpless. Text on the frame reads: the hands of control / over both bodies and minds / massage just themselves.