Scarred Solace
(written at Geneve Aeroport on 24th September, whilst waiting for my flights home)
I am tired, it’s 6pm on Sunday the 24th September, I am at Geneve Aeroport and I won’t be in my own bed until Tuesday night.
There is a woman who looks like the Agnetha Fältskog from ABBA smoking a vape with a very cute little dog on her lap. I am unsure whether the dog is very old or a puppy. I wonder where they are flying to?
My phone has finally notified me that I am flying to Dubai at 9:40pm. I cannot wait to get home. The last day and a half has been a drag and horrendously expensive! But the whole of Switzerland does look like a school kid’s diorama project!
The rest of my #festivalof60 adventure has been truly wonderful, no complaints at all. NONE!!!
If you have read my last blog post I wrote about Monachopsis.
Scarred Solace is an extremely personal body of work that like Monachopsis includes two completely and seemingly disparate bodies of work.
It is about scars; physical and emotional.
When David suggested I combine the two it was a revelation… would it work? How could I consolidate?? that the homage portraits are copies of other artists’ work?
I do feel that they provide light relief to the scratched black and white self portraits. Humour is something I need but also use a lot. It is me.
I was worried that this work is a bit self obsessed and maybe it is, but as a book it’ll be an emotional legacy.
You can view a digital version of the book here:
Through creating this work and Monachopsis I am now thinking of exploring presenting my Dad’s holiday snaps of China when he was in the very early stages of Prkinson’s and dements with the “Dad and Me Selfies” project we did together when he was in dementia care until his death.
Stay tuned!
