Imagine doing something that brings you joy.
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Do something that brings you joy.
Oil on canvas triptych - all of the paintings are the same orientation but the ones on either side are larger than the one in the centre.
Left-hand side: A word painting of the following: “He said, ‘You’re part of the problem. You are creating a barrier between yourself and our society by putting that label on yourself. And we should all be leaving our religions and our roots at the door and living as equals.’ That’s a beautiful idea. But why do I have to scrub off where I come from in order to fit in to your vision of an equal society?” Dina Amer.
Centre: A painting where the canvas is full of figures that are identical shapeless blobs with blank faces.
Right-hand side: A word painting of the following: YOUR Utopia: a room full of blank faces and identical forms.
A GIF of a plant taking root, growing out the ground, flowering, spreading its seed and starting the process elsewhere.
A GIF of a footprint in sand that is quickly washed away by the tide.
A cartoon showing the inside of a factory with one giant machine through which runs a long conveyor belt. Children, joined in a chain, are loaded in at one end and come out of the other after going through five large box parts labelled, “Infants,” “Juniors,” “Secondary,” “Further” and “Higher.” Various ingredients (Knowledge, Confidence, Ability, Skills etc…) are loaded into each one (and taken out too); and the children gradually get older as they pass between boxes on the conveyor belts.
All are led away, individually, at the end, whether from the Secondary, Further or Higher box, to a door marked, “Exit,” where someone is ready to shake their hand and give them a certificate before they walk through into darkness.
A series of pictures showing creatures interacting with humanity in a mixture of ways - from birds drinking water from statue fountains and owls flying through barns to turtles caught in rubbish, badgers stopping to admire graffiti of badgers and captured cheetah cubs in captivity.
The images produced in your mind when reading a book, listening to music, watching a film, or undertaking a similar activity.
Title from: Brooks, Xan (2023) Interview: Suede’s Mat Osman: ‘The biggest difference between Richard and me is that he has no interest in being cool’. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/29/suede-mat-osman-novel-richard-osman-brother-ghost-theatre (Accessed: 15th May 2023).
