{"id":11384,"date":"2022-10-23T07:11:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirstenharrisart.co.uk\/?p=11384"},"modified":"2022-11-27T12:55:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T12:55:22","slug":"fragments-37-0f-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirstenharrisart.co.uk\/?p=11384","title":{"rendered":"Fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Crow Fragments, Ink on Paper, 21 x 29 cm<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my last post I wrote that I was feeling a bit wobbly, I didn&#8217;t realise I was coming down with tonsillitis. The body follows the stresses we feel. Too much stress is too much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fevered, I&#8217;ve been seeing the most fantastical images appear in my mind&#8217;s eye. Spectacular, detailed, complex paintings that were so clear. Paintings so rich in texture and imagery I wouldn&#8217;t know where to begin. Maybe the images are pointing a new direction if I can find threads of them in waking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s so weird how dreams fragment as we begin to wake and then disappear. Only an echo is left, a smudge in our mind&#8217;s eye, as though it has been erased. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday afternoon I felt well enough to get out of bed and draw for a while. Inspector George Gently was on tv. A bit of eye candy is good for healing after all! An episode called Gently Between the Lines. Good title!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a feathery smudgy piece of paper left over from previous days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Rorschach test &#8211; what did I see? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fragmented landscape emerged &#8211; stag, horse tree, river, crows, moon, twisted roots, droplet of water, feathers&#8230; and yet still smudgy and abstract&#8230; memories of a familiar landscape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flow of the drawing falls towards the viewer, it feels spacious, alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Crow Fragments&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feeling fragmented, unwell&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet things breakdown before change occurs &#8211; deaths within life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dreams disappear yet we must go gently in the direction of our dreams for if we lose hope we are done for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love Kirsten xx<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirstenharrisart.co.uk\">www.kirstenharrisart.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Fragments\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crow Fragments, Ink on Paper, 21 x 29 cm In my last post I wrote that I was feeling a bit wobbly, I didn&#8217;t realise I was coming down with tonsillitis. 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