Stories:
as I've been working in situ at the Wellcome Collection, people feel free to come up and talk to me.
So far I've heard...
lots of questions about what kinds of pens I'm using...
many confessions about deaths experienced: someone who needed to express her anger about the gaps in her sister-in-law's care...
theories: an (stunningly beautiful) young Egyptian Moslem who thinks about plans for her own death frequently as she has witnessed 'so many bad deaths' and a middle-aged man who is angry with Dylan Thomas's angry wish to 'not go gentle into that goodnight' and would like more cultural acceptance of 'ebbing away'...
and reactions from medics - who are usually very positive about what I'm doing, saying that it reflects their own experiences. This means a lot to me. Oh, and...
one question about whether I get enough work and whether I can make a living from what I do (!). This was so unexpected I somehow felt obliged to answer it.
Plus I met the lovely Indigo Alison who stopped by for a coffee while I was working.
My work will be at the Wellcome Collection until 20th March.
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Absolutely Fabulous! So much to ponder--birdseye view,scale, transparency,
reflection, marriage of inside life/outside darkness, impermanance. Even the
upside down man adds an interesting tweek to the overall scene.
Hmm...I lost both parents last October only 36 hrs apart. Their death together,
while the most surreal experience,took on a greater meaning because they
mastered the Art of Living.
Posted by: Kathleen Valley | March 15, 2011 at 07:56 AM
Thank you so much for your comment: it's great to know it has an impact, even in photos and across continents.
It's always moving when people who have had recent personal experience of the subject matter of the piece are able to comment positively about it - it means so much to me that something in the work chimes with what they have experienced.
Posted by: badaude | March 15, 2011 at 01:25 PM
You look dead sexy.
Posted by: Expat Stu | March 15, 2011 at 02:45 PM
Oh, I'm late to the party, I would have loved to have come along and asked you really awkward questions! Ha, well perhaps I can get over there to have a look before the 20th anyway...
Posted by: Claire * Lola Is Beauty | March 17, 2011 at 08:57 PM
Grrr, looks like I've missed this intriguing installation.
Posted by: Whyndham_UCL | March 19, 2011 at 10:56 AM
Still there for a couple of days. Or it could be interesting to watch it being scrubbed off on Monday...
Posted by: badaude | March 19, 2011 at 01:53 PM