#295: What would you like to see here?

A series of screens around an exhibition space.  

A computer in front of each screen allows you to choose an artwork to appear on that screen.

#294: The Stacks (Scrambled (and added to) by Chat GPT)

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#293: Sacred Space (Waiting Room)

An artwork showing the place where your ideas are waiting and the form your ideas take when they are there.  There is an entrance and an exit.  This artwork is arriving and leaving.  What other ideas are waiting there and what do they look like?  And when will they leave?  What ideas have already left?  What did they look like when in the room and what do they look like now?

#292: If you see darkness, look away

Oil on canvas.  A figure can be seen on the left of the scene looking away from something behind them, and they have a hand raised to block the view.

Behind is a second figure following in long black robes that completely hide their shape.  A hood over their head hides their face in darkness.  One arm is extended out to the first first figure, long bony fingers reaching out to touch them.

In the background is a rocky desolate scene, and the ground is made of rocks, mostly jagged and pointing upwards, the figures are making their way along the only path through a dangerous landscape.  The first figure, however, is stepping onto cut grass, mixed with flowers (irises and snowdrops), and is walking in a direction that would take them out of the painting via the bottom left corner.  Sunshine lights this grass and the front of the first figure.

#291: Hope (Crushed and preserved)

A narcissus pressed and mounted.

#290: Commuter Coach Cartoons

Cartoon sketches of people onboard a commuter coach.

1: Wake-up buddies.

One commuter sits asleep while a second reaches over and taps them on the shoulder saying, “We’re here.”

2: Listening to Medúlla.

A commuter on the coach, in the dark, listening to an mp3 player, gently smiling.

3: Death of a favourite character.

A commuter reading a book on the back seat of the coach, looking a little angry, a tear rolling down their cheek.

4: “He’s asleep, then.”

A commuter fast asleep in their seat, snoring loudly.

5: Breakdown (of coach).

A line of commuters walking, heads down and tired, from one coach to another at the side of the motorway.

6: The scenery.

A commuter looking out of the window at a huge expanse of countryside heading off into the distance.

7: Still working.

A commuter in the dark lit up by the glow of their laptop.

8: The Tourist.

A view from outside the coach looking at one of the windows where a commuter stares out in wonder.

9: After the thud.

Commuters looking up at the roof in shock and fear.

10: Home at last.

A weary-eyed commuter smiling and chatting as they stand by the driver waiting for the coach to stop.  

11: Breakdown (of self).

A commuter leaving the coach early, sweating, the driver asking, “Are you sure?”

#288: Practicing Joy and #289: Performing Joy

Imagine doing something that brings you joy.

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Do something that brings you joy.

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Cave, Nick (2024) Nearly 300 Red Hand Files are in, and I feel you know us contributors a little... (The Red Hand Files #299).  Available at: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/where-or-how-do-you-find-joy/ (Accessed: 4th September 2024).