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A Sacrosanct Diet

Usually she abstains from eating pomegranate and goat as it somehow feels disrespectful, even dangerous.

On the one occasion that she plucked a seeded apple from an abandoned garden and held it close with the greatest care before ripping it apart and sinking her teeth into the juicy sacs, she found herself questioned by a large goat asking why she has done such a thing. <Read More>

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[D]Affodil

A mortal daffodil seen whilst out walking one dark spring day; its resemblance to the Affodil of my imaginings causing me to pause. I felt, in my encounter with it, at the threshold of this world and the Otherworld.

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Painting and Painting [exhibition]

Painting and Painting, a two-person exhibition (kate southworth/neil mcleod) of digital and analogue paintings was held at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall, July 2016. 

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Premonition Time

At bedtime she is unsettled. A stagnant fear renders her rootless, and she slips almost unmoving, between things, awaiting release from her indecision.  She is unclear how to manage it, how to eliminate the connection and fold it away.  During premonition time she invokes a spell to sleep in a humble heap. Out she glides from all the lives she ever lives.  For a while she is unable to understand very much at all, yet it is resident within her.  She struggles to place the activity. Perhaps he is hidden away these past years, perhaps a figment of her painter’s mind. Something is happening, and she sees what it might always have been: a quiet sense of sureness and a silent determination to subdue the revelations.  She imagines its form, she wants to scroll through and feel what is hidden from view. 

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