With all this talk about the future – girl worried about her own. Weary from having fought the darkness for so long, she declared …. beauty must now reign. Click image to view this beautiful definition of beauty/ print/stick on your bedroom wall/in a scrap book . Particularly like the ’morally impressive’ and ‘a combination of qualities’ part of the definition. And I asked a friend recently if they thought I was weird or mad, to which they replied, ”No, I think you’re just very unusual’. So I tucked that tasty reply into my pocket for safe keeping. Redeclaring beauty must reign on the unusual, the flawed, the old, the different and weird too. Image from old book (1840!) ‘Grecian Stories’.
Received this beautiful, mind bending bowl as a gift today from my young friend Mags - handcrafted using Black Dog posters! An absolute work of art and something I shall forever treasure. Mags also does the inky black handwriting for the Army of Ink – and is hand making the next book too. Check out the new ink in the diaries. Happy 21st Mags! x
Sometimes things are harder than you think. Gulliver arrives on the page to sort out the overburdened Boy in the previous post, ’Makes You Wonder Alice’. Click image for new hand typed print version. Stay tuned some good things on the way.
Lithograph by Edward Bawden titled, ‘I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side …’ from book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Jonathan Swift.
Taking August off from the website to concentrate on some things in print. In the meantime, a big thanks for your K I N D N E S S in supporting Black Dog – see you back in September.
Click on above images for new hand typed on genuine old typewriter print version you can stick up somewhere or in something private (journal, scrapbook, bedroom wall, back of toilet door) … and/or a public place (noticeboards @ work, uni, school etc) to help spread all things Black Dog.
“Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble – courage in your own.” Barbara Dinham’s Father. She writes … “The mature conscience of the postwar generation globally dropped do-gooding in favour of analysis and insight into social and political structures that maintain inequality and general injustice. Kindness did not fit into analysis. Being kind was for animals, children, the elderly, yourself even, and maybe the environment. Kindness was too banal for the big social issues. Kindness was for private, personal actions. Yet one of the major social movements of the second half of the 20th century fought fiercely for recognition that the personal is political. So is it time for a new kind of kindness?”
Barbara Dinham, Director, Pesticide Action Network, UK. Pic and story from book ‘A Revolution In Kindness’ edited by Anita Roddick (Body Shop) – my bible. Another BLOG post about kindness.
Click image to view all the BOys and their impossible things - print off and stick up somewhere … Why? Listening to young people, one thing that comes through really strongly is the weight of the world they carry on their shoulders (particularly so for guys – and farmers, war veterans … ). So I hope this one helps to lighten the load a bit. It’s a true story, arrived on my page this week - pass it on …
NEW: click image to print and collect. Such a comforting thought. Tim Winton’s version of Alice in Wonderland is a visual feast. When at his exhibition recently, the eye boggling costumes, including Alice’s hand made shoes, were also on display – as was the Bat Mobile! Check out this previous blog post for more of Tim Winton’s inspiring art and story and other related posts.
