The Real and The Imagined.

It is a challenge to try to capture with painted brushstrokes, something that is moving and changing all the time; the shifting clouds, reflections and colours; every second the landscape is changing and made new by subtle transformations

The experience of making something from raw materials is a simple and fundamental one. The coldness of clay, the smell of linseed oil, the familiar feel of wooden tools or brushes connect you to the elements. Over time the process of choosing the right colour and quality of paint becomes unconscious and instinctive. During painting or Drawing hundreds of decisions are made – from minute changes to complete destruction of previous work. 

Helen Garrett, is an artist, who has a deep sense of working with poetic imagination. She often has conversation while creating her art and she mainly asks "do these expressions of creativity come from the imagination or is the imagination a portal that opens this space and allows the ocnversation to occur?"(1)

Helen Garrett's works and conversation  along with the creative writing task at the wymering have somehow influenced me to think of a "The real and the imagined" scenario or the version of Wymering for me.

My own Drawing

 

I decided to create my own imagined version of Wymering through the lived experiences of the place. While drawing the above picture, I had several dialogues in and out.

The imaginative creation for wymering is that, It is an entity, a person lived through time and changes of time. Wymering wears the sturctures and materials, old and new, falling apart but still intact. It is an entity that has witnessed the breaths of different generations. Wants to survive and is looking at every small opportunity to thrive. Just one chance and it won't disappoint. 

My chance to wymering would be the "Museum of Breaths" where I carefully knit the past and the future, the real and the imagined, the tangible and the intangible, the people that were and are going to be, in a narrative that is creative and imaginative!

(1) Helen, Garrett. (April 2014). Imagination and Art. Interalia Magazine., 

https://www.interaliamag.org/articles/imagination-and-art/