Amongst other things, I’ve read three charming books this Spring…
Four vibrant stories that took me to imaginary places, and at the same time altered my reality…
The President’s Hat by Antoine Laurain
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
Geraldine Verne’s Red Suitcase by Jane Riley
(I also enjoyed Jane Riley’s ‘The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock‘ last year.)
Coincidentally, a friend recently asked “When you close your eyes and imagine something – a picture, an object, a place etc…Can you see it? Can you see these things with your eyes shut?”
It seems that some people don’t see things the same.
Aphantasia is a phenomenon in which people are unable to visualize imagery. Whow?!
What is y-our reality?
‘The things that we think/see {ellipsis} ‘, that’s our reality. We all respond to what we are presented with very differently. From waking in the morning, our brain takes over… “Fancy a… coffee, tea, juice?” #choice #difference
This spring break, we’ve been down to the tip of our island… Back to a place of ellipsis, where people leave out unnecessary stuff. A place of relative contentment. A place of elemental rugged rustic black and white. Sparkling mica, rolling waves, flourishing campions. A place of roots and wrecks.
Wasson? There’s so much potential in the gaps between words…
As we return from the edge, the foliage of consumer culture thickens. The rhythms and vibrations, the colours and mechanics that make up our world incite noise. We build signs and significance over and above the elements that made us. Words and pictures that distort the truth, glare and blind, intoxicate and enchant…
When you see things, what do you see? What do you imagine?
In addition to the above we watched a ‘charming’ film last night, that used hardly any words… Davidson and Warbeck’s The Man In The Hat #delightful
Images… May your day become exponentially effervescent…
Jules P Richards 