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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 10 March 2018
Sometimes when curating and putting together our mobile photography and art showcase, as I work long hours, tiredness creeps in and it’s at those times when semi consciousness takes over and the real creativity happens. I think this is the case for many artists, creativity can not be turned on and off with the flick of switch, sometimes it takes a while for it to start building and smouldering and as the heat builds and builds it becomes the all encompassing climax of our vigorous lives. There is much talent in this showcase, matched with fierce, compassionate and revelatory art. Enjoy this piercingly tender film, it’s one that will make…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 9 July 2017
“The past only comes back‘, wrote Virginia Woolf in her unfinished memoir, “when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the sliding surface of a deep river. Then one sees through the surface to the depths“. I confess, I am a huge fan of Virginia Woolf, the English writer who is considered to be one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and essentially (to me) a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. I ‘discovered’ Woolf’s work as a young girl, long before my eldest son attended boarding school, in Lewes, where she died, drowning herself in the River Ouse, not…
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Mobile Photography and Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 30 August 2015 – TheAppWhisperer
Wow! This weeks’ mobile photography and art Flickr Group Showcase is incredible. Following my curation and creation of the showcase, I watched it several times. It reminded me of a letter by Fancesca Woodman to Giuseppe Gallo in 1980. Woodman was recovering from prolonged sickness and she read ‘the complete works of Proust’ which thoroughly inspired her. She said “I’d really like to create a work of art like that, rooted in and linked to everyday life, but addressing questions of great scope”. This beautiful showcase offers immense scope. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do. If you would like to be considered for our weekly…
