Sometimes I can’t escape the pull.
The pull of the past tugged at her every attempt at a brave step away. But, alas, the counter bell in her mind rang with enlightenment….”You’re just going to have to be a touch more strategic in planning your moves and setting yourself ever so lovingly loose.” At that very moment she felt her shoulders come down from her ear lobes and life return to the balls of her feet. She was ready to go.
Pass her on to fellow travellers of endless possibility…
Click on the typewriter for your Clunk & Jam note to print and stick up on a wall - or in a scrapbook. (See Elle’s strength wall here). Just realised I didn’t do one for you for #82 so will get on the typewriter and post soon.
Just received this card in the post from friends, Bern and Steve. Long live the letter box. Pictured…Solarized palladium print by Alred Steiglitz (1864-1946) from The Art Institute of Chicago.
Chinese proverb. Image ‘Amish children on their porch, Pennsylvania, 1938 by J.Baylor Roberts’ found in Lapham’s Quarterly publication.
‘The Red Tree’ by Shaun Tan
‘Darkness overcomes you’ (by Shaun Tan)
Shaun Tan’s book, ‘The Red Tree’ has been adapted for the stage by the Barking Ghecko Theatre Company, Perth WA. Showing from Saturday 11th Feb – Tues 14th Feb. Tickets available through BOCS. Check out the short film of the Red Tree previously posted on Black Dog here. And another story here from his book ‘Tales of Outer Suburbia’. View interview with Shaun Tan and Director of the stage play here as they talk about the themes of depression and anxiety in young people and how the book/play explores these themes.
‘Dad’s Coming Home’ by Winslow Homer, 1873 (Source ‘Lapham’s Quarterly Winter 2012, a magazine of history and ideas).
Art is for everyone – or should be. It invites us to explore meanings of things. Seek deeper understanding. Tell our own stories. It also allows us to practice the questioning of things. The ‘reading’ of what we see, and grow ourselves through this process. Art also suggests untold stories and whatever story arrives through our own perception of it, is ours alone. We can never make a mistake in the interpretation of its meaning. It may (most likely will) differ from the Artist’s meaning but we can never be wrong. Some questions that came up for me about this piece, were….
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Installation and projection from Preparing the Flute, by William Kentridge (2005).
Received an email from a school in California where the 10th grade students were learning about suicide prevention - saying they “loved the Black Dog website” and were using it for researching their project topic. One of the students suggested adding a useful link on our website that she’d found - so I’ve added it to the links page. Thank you for sending this through - I’m sure it will be very useful to people visiting Black Dog and congrats on being awarded extra credits I hear, for your find!
