After
I painted this series when reflecting on the feeling, when on waking, of trying to retain the details of a fabulously imaginative dream as it slips from your mind's subconscious to conscious reality.
Invaluable Values
I’m curious about the correlation between making value aligned choices with a sense of personal harmony.
After multi podcast listens & pondering, my pointless is this: Whilst navigating through moments, days & decades, if your choice of response to situational magic or mayhem is aligned with your personal values, you will enjoy a life LOVED rather than a life lived.
What are your invaluable values?
Wish Fairies
Wish Fairies are sweet & generous humans who delight in the wonders of the world & in granting a loved one's wishes. They move graciously, unaware that their company is actually the best gift & blessing that one could ever wish for.
This is 2126 Calling
During the final months of 2025, while developing the concept for this body of work, I was contemplating the significance & enduring relevance of the ‘New Year’s resolution’.
One suggested approach to identifying meaningful New Year intentions was to imagine an end of year conversation reflecting on your most significant achievements.
Rather than a 12 month check in, I pondered how I might respond to questions from a future version of myself, 100 years ahead, asking if I was pleased with how I was choosing to move through this one precious life.
Would 2126 me be grateful that I’m flossing my teeth? High- five me for taking my supplements? Be encouraging of gestures of kindness without scorekeeping?
Throughout the works I incorporated canvas & wallpaper cuttings shaped as skulls, alongside landline phones & vessels representing the four classical elements (air as intellect, energy as fire, earth as stability & water as emotion) to encourage playful curiosity within the act of self-reflection.
‘This Is 2126 Calling’ is part contemplation, part nostalgia, part humour, hope, & tenderness, & is just a little….wayward.
