Life and art are never separate, not even if you try to wrench them apart. It’s been a long time since I wrote in quite this way, but we are living in increasingly frightening and unsettled times. My blog is a call for preparedness, but above all for creative resistance. Finding spaces in which the mind can be free become more vital when our actual freedoms are under threat. Every act of creativity and self-care is a means of survival. Reaching out and organising is what we must do.
Tag Archives: Exile
Sanctuary – finding a place of safety online #actuallyautistic
This blog feels like the place to be right now. I can be quiet. I can think my own thoughts more clearly. But when I think about the need for sanctuary my heart stops.
Confronting my fear
As I journey home I’m already longing to return once more to Catalonia.
Adventures in Object Art #MfOR
Like Hansel and Gretel before me I left some breadcrumbs, but still I’m rather awestruck that I could have missed working my way back to this somewhat seminal moment in the evolution of a project called The Museum for Object Research.
Red lines and the echoes of history; police brutality and the Catalan question.
With my art practice I witness. It’s all I can do.
Press Release: ¡Buenos Días Dictador! Eight new postmemory paintings by Sonia Boué
The spirit of these works is nostalgic yet confrontational, employing a juxtaposition of painted and collaged elements as a means of articulating the unspoken. Buenos Días Dictador, forms a visual essay which tweaks at the invisibility cloak of Franco’s rule to ask a serious question; how can we live the life domestic in the face of violent rupture, exile and dictatorship?
Art and Autism (a creative edge).
While not wishing to indulge in trumpet blowing, I have to say that autism is of course advantageous in the making of art. No question.
Uncertain Weather System in Place: autism, stigma and metaphor
I have a new piece of work. I have a new metaphor. I have a new dance with stigma. Thoughts swirl. Light on shadow, and shadow on light. I have courage and I am scared. I have privilege and choice. New work takes time to absorb. I am almost six weeks into knowing that I amContinue reading “Uncertain Weather System in Place: autism, stigma and metaphor”
The psychic vibration of the object…
Objects found today which speak…With all the forms I use as an artist I sometimes forget that the principle source of my inspiration is object work. No matter what I do it all springs from the objects around me and, of course, the ghosts of the past echoing through them. Today was anContinue reading “The psychic vibration of the object…”
Video As Thought
Today I worked through some ideas for a forthcoming performance piece The Sadness of Being Nothing. As I worked I realised deep within me that video making is like blogging and raking my fingers through the sand. Video making has become thinking, and the more I learn (as I make) the more helpful the processContinue reading “Video As Thought”
The other side 