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Tiger shaped sunshine.

Lydia June 20, 2010 Inspiration, Lydia, Photography, Visual Art

Tiger shaped sunshine.

I do not really like nature. I suffer from hay fever, get bored when ‘walking’ , never relax, usually moan, and have to have some sort of picnic or food orientated goal to dilute the arduous task. However, yesterday was very different. It seemed that the sun was perfection and there was a lovely welsh breeze. My new [...]

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Nostalgia; going forward?

Lydia May 13, 2010 Inspiration, Lydia

Nostalgia; going forward?

I have noticed… perhaps due to my dissertation being centered around tracing childhood memories and adult introspection… that ‘nostalgia’ has become a massive part of our visual future. Carol Mavor, in her stunning theoretical study ‘Reading Boyishly’, rescues nostalgia from an idealised cliche, and postulates that is it really about the notion of home, comfort [...]

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Memoirs of a Moonbeam

Lydia January 24, 2010 Inspiration

Memoirs of a Moonbeam

“the camera always separates the subject from the viewer” Susan Derges.