seeing things – Page 16

Beltane: Thursday 1st May
Gaelic May Day festival
marking the beginning of summer
midway between the spring equinox
and summer solstice
(app play)
@ kitchen sink studio we are focusing on exploration
and play: spontaneity and not thinking❣️
(below) inspired by Helen Wells’s project joy filled flowers

some culture picks that might resonate, from kitchen studio tribe:
visual:

All We Imagine As Light (2024 1hr 58mn) directed by Payal Kapadia,
sublime, slow, succint exploration of sisterhood (avail on Apple tv & BFI player)

Georgia O’keefe – Inside the studio of America’s Most Celebrated Female Artist 17mns

Art Gallery Explorer on Linder and Mickalene Thomas at The Hayward Gallery 30mns

Inside Brian Eno’s Studio an intimate dialogue betwee Brian & Zane Lowe 43mns

David Lynch: The Art Life (2016) lovely documentary, from the late great Lynch avail on Amazon & BFI

other:
64 Reasons To Celebrate Paul McCartney an article by Ian Leslie, exemplifying
love, gratitude, awe and acknowledgement

The Diary of Frida Kahlo:
this ‘amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life’

☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️

s e e n a r o u n d B r i s t o l
☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️

c o l l a g e c o l l a g e c o l l a g e c o l l a g ec o l l a g e c o l l a g e c o l l a g e c o l l a g e
world collage day is celebrated on Saturday May 10th 2025
you know how there is often something you absolutely love to do,
and when you return to it
it makes your heart sing?

for Lilla this is making collage:
here is some recent work
cut it out meets off-cuts

so lovely to be around young beings and see their spontaneous wondrous creativity
we are fortunate to have Pegi living above the studio,
she comes in to make art work with us: when we commented we are all artists,
she responded I am not an artist I am a pretend artist
yikes! ….
at five years old the myth of the
less than, flawed, in need of improvement human has already begun…
we mailed her a letter addressed to Pegi, artist and musician,
a small gesture to remind her she is a naturally creative being
(as we all are)
…and received this letter back from her…

…and continuing the series three books by the bed

g r o k g r o k g r o k g r o k g r o k g r o k g r o k g r o k g r o k g r o k g r o k
a wonderful word invented by the science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein,
whose 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land placed great importance on
the concept of grokking…..
to grok is to empathize so deeply with others that you merge or blend with them
or as another might describe it: to jump in the hole with that person
☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️☸️
may your practice include plenty of grokking
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we notice the birds are ever-more vociferous as spring blooms, here is a wee recording from the urban woods
in The Vale of Health & Wellbeing (aka Arnos Vale Cemetery) ….with ambient traffic sounds

ahhhhhh, being in nature, so soothing and such a reminder
of our own true nature too – made of the same stuff
Anne On was reflecting on how playing in the woods
was her favourite thing as a child
creating imaginary secret worlds,
building things from those found in nature….
and today she still goes there, makes offerings,
leaves tokens of gratitude,
and love notes/quotes…

what floats your boat?
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
e x p a n d i n g s k e t c h b o o k pr a c t i c e

creative swipes from the interwebbie:
get one (v. large) piece of paper, randomly stick fragments of old/discounted?work
on both sides, fold in half, and half again making 8 sections: then work into/alter
with whatever materials you feel to use – P L E R K – play+work….explore/see your work
juxtaposed differently…

here’s some pages we made earlier