Category: statement
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Moje ciało Mój wybór
MY BODY MY CHOICE A ruling from Poland’s constitutional tribunal last week outlawed abortion in cases where the foetus is severely damaged or malformed. This in practice now means almost all forms of abortion are banned. this has sparked mass demonstrations against the bill on abortion ban. It exploded into a dramatic protest campaign that is now in…
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Drownd Guillemot
The Clearing magazine commissioned seven writers to mark the Remembrance Day of Lost Species. These pieces are not eulogies. Although they respond to the grief and disorientation of our times, they are also songs of hope and memory, commitment and renewal. I was touched by Pippa Marland’s essay on November 30th 2018 “the impacts of an altered…
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Classroom illustration: Haiku
take one Haiku add an image subtract any literal definition. Equals, fun with finding the metaphor.
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Classroom illustration: mismatch corps.
the original idea of cubist, this was to give us an idea of how our eye builds up an image. The fact we don’t see from just one view point. We see many angles at once and our brain makes the image up. So we collected different parts of ourself in self portrait and came…
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The Well = an Artist Date
As any working or struggling creative person knows some days we are all out of inspiration. Maybe it’s writers block or as my best friend calls it “brain paralysis moments” but you just look at your work and think I’ve done this before. I have no original ideas left? Well then you must be well…