April 2011
3 posts
I love Tracey Emin.
Kind’ve controversial this, haha. To me, Tracey Emin’s work is incredible. The raw emotion present in such confessional work is just so beautiful, and inspires me so much. Her work is incredibly introspective but at the same time so relatable, drawing on the fact that human emotion is universal. I’ve read her autobiography and to me she is an amazing person,...
I love (contempory) art.
There’s nothing else that makes me feel happy in the same way that going to an art gallery does - when I find a new artist I love, or see work that makes me think and feel something. I absoluely treasure all my books about my favourite artists, and when I buy a new one the excitement I get before reading it is ridiculous, I’m like a little kid. Writing...
February 2011
1 post
I love that I’m not entirely ordinary.
Several years ago I watched ‘The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive’. Stephen Fry spoke to different celebrities living with bipolar disorder and gave them this scenario: if there was a button right here on the table that you could press to take away your illness, would you press it? Each person said no, and I just couldn’t...