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Day 7: Book Turned Up and Submission to Photobook Show

Well today despite poorliness I have done 2 new things (kind of).  I have started to open my mind to self-healing through chanting, the power of aum and hypnosis and I have submitted to the Photobook Show. When I say I have submitted, what I mean is my book turned up this morning and I […]

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Day 7: Chanting, Meditating and Hypnosis

Well for someone trying to relax and get well I have been very busy the last 15 or so hours.  I have decided to try and rid myself of anxiety and fear, thus curing my anxiety disorder, by trying to learn various healing mediums.  I have done lots of reading on meditation and chanting.  Last […]

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Something New a Day: Day 6 — I applied to join a very choosy network

Well today on my journey of re-wiring my brain and feeling the fear but doing it anyway I attempted to join a rather selective Arts Network.  I always find these things awkward and I don’t really like the idea of them; after all art is subjective so someone judging me and something that is very […]

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Day 5: A new Dawn

I seem to be running a day late with the writing up of my daily changes and new things, this is largely down to the fact that I have been so bloody unwell.  I’m supposed to have a networking meeting today for mums who are self employed but alas I am too ill to attend… […]

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Fragments Selected for SELF exhibtion

I was very happy yesterday morning when I discovered that Fragments has been chosen by Young Quay at Quay Arts to feature in their curated exhibition, SELF. If you are on the Isle of Wight between 1st March and the end of April then please do pop in an have a look. The Private View […]

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Something New a Day, Day 4: Create a Fake Social Network

I was unable to post yesterday as I spent all day creating the fake social network and then felt so unwell I went to bed.  Anyhow you will probably wonder why anyone would want to create a fake social network if it wasn’t for bad reasons.   Well  I have been working on an art […]

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Change your Life Day 3: Poetry Submission to Ninth Letter

So today’s new thing is  I submitted a collection of six of my poems to University of Illinos’ literary journal the Ninth Letter.  Although I am well aware that nothing will probably come of any of this I think the main thing is that I am trying to make a positive change in my life […]

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Something New Day 2: Publishing a photobook

So my attempts to change my life by changing one thing every day almost had a setback today as soon as they started when I woke up feeling incredibly unwell.  In fact I was so ill I had to forgo my Father-in-law’s birthday and felt horribly guilty for upsetting my family (my husband was fine […]

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New Dawn

I have decided that I am sick and tired of my life staying the same.  What is it that Einstein said and my husband keeps reminding me about: “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”   So what are we to […]

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A Road Less Travelled at the Well Hung Gallery

If you have any interest in seeing some of my work in the “real” world then you can catch Snapshot at The Chocolate Factory with Shape Arts until the 30th and A Road Less Travelled at the Well Hung Gallery in Hoxton until 29th February and if you want to make an artist very happy you […]