Tamsin
Moments of meditation
The embossed images in this project grew out of sketches I made immediately after meditating each day. Sometimes it was obvious where the images had come from, prompted by sounds I heard or thoughts that had distracted me, others were more abstract. The images were embossed onto Khadi paper using a postcard printing press from the Open Press Project. The box is covered in Japanese linen and lined with washi paper.
Tony
When the scent faded
For the prompt of quiet I thought about quiet as the absence of noise. This made me think of the lack in senses other than hearing, say the lack of smell. I had a project I had been thinking about for a long time after I found an old cologne bottle in a junk shop. It reminded me of a novel I had read years ago about a woman who misses the scent of her lover. I couldn’t find the novel again so in the end I asked ChatGPT to find it for me, it supposedly having read everything. After a lot of prompting it couldn’t find the book I wanted so I asked it to write a short story from my prompts. ChatGPT’s story is uncannily like the story I read all those years ago – you can read it here.
Gill
My book contains words and thoughts that I made during my residency in Finland, which is a very quiet place without many people or cars; a place where you can spend a lot of time in peaceful contemplation, thinking about and responding to nature.
Patti
The quiet, so unwanted, is the absence of my morning phone call from my daughter; the last one was on 9th May 2024. What wouldn’t I give to have this silence filled, this peace broken, this unbearable quiet gone?
