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?
![Page One The page is divided into 3 rows of 3 boxes. Row 1, Box 1: Large writing fills the box with the title and credits: Blank Space, by James Atkinson and [the artist’s name]. Row 1, Box 2: A view of the Tate Modern from the Thames, people walking by and walking toward the entrances. Row 1, Box 3: People walking down the ramp to the Turbine Hall, having just entered the Tate Modern. Row 2, Box 1: A man is seen getting onto the escalator by the sculpture Love by Robert Indiana. Row 2, Box 2: Man walking toward the entrance to the In the Studio galleries on the 2nd Floor. Row 2, Box 3: Man walks through the Studio Practice room. Row 3, Box 1: Man walks into the International Surrealism room. Row 3, Box 2: Man seen from the corner, with the International Surrealism room and fellow visitors behind looking at other artworks while he stares directly at the viewer. Row 3, Box 3: Man stands in the corner of the room, this time seen from behind and we can see that he is looking into an empty corner between Deification of a Soldier by Kikuji Yamashita and Birth by Jackson Pollock. Across the bottom of the box there is text reading: I think about blank spaces a lot.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Qq0XNSGcdbsdHli2B7Vo43cm_aVTBB24M7M9mf_iXX-rMC_BTF0CEWvRmZOtNBHbGKJPtoBwrZvaugzv8pqvry8fVikFutYpc9DRdbtbiMRdh4a7Uuvb8LBhv182vdJezYSjL3rUkZhcmCw_H8QDjfSSaFc-8DPyxQSX6Av96t83Je80RAyVoOepi4M/s2480/Blank%20Space%20jpg%201.png)
