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Sometimes you just need a short break to soak up a new culture and discover a new place. I try to escape at least once a year, in fact my savings are intended for this purpose, whether with friends or family, I always find time to explore alone. My favourite places so far have been …
If you pay attention you might have realized that one of the collections I showed you in a bullet-journal post (here or here) was a 35 things to do by 35. Did I accomplish anything from this list this year? Yes I tried NaNoWriMo for the first time this year, I managed to write over …
I am thirty years old today, whoop! So to celebrate I thought I would share the 30 must important (to me) philosophical lessons I have learnt. Not everyone is going to like you You are not going to like everyone You don't have to be all of one thing It's OK to let yourself feel …
My favourite artists in no particular order. Salvador Dali Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory. 1931 Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I. 1907 Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci, Study of Horse. 1492 Ana Mendieta Ana Mendieta, Silueta series Georgia O'Keefe Georgia O'Keefe, Flower of Life II. 1925 Jenny Saville Jenny Saville, Reverse. …
Epithets are other names that a god is known by due to regions they were worshipped or/and divine associations. The Hellenic Theoi (Greek Gods) have many epithets except for Hestia who due to information about her cults being lost means she has no known epithets; the info we know is that she is a daughter …
Here is an art essay for you which explains the concept of the sublime and whether it is relevant in contemporary art society, as always comment and like. In order to determine if the term sublime is relevant in contemporary art I am going to examine four artists who work with different mediums in contemporary …
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Meaning it is calculated by the phases of the moon and each month is approximately thirty days long. Most of the days of the month are dedicated to a certain God or task, which tells us that the ancient Greeks were consistently worshipping and performing rituals within the household as well as outside as a …
...As of the second year of my MA degree in Fine Art My concepts revolve around mythology, phenomenology, nature and text and have since my BA degree. In February this year a family member died, this started me thinking about death and what I want to happen to my body. I also began researching death …
But still a long way to go. I have just finished my second year of my MA degree (I am doing it part-time) and I am thinking about the future. I went to a PHD info lecture and realised I wouldn't be able to afford to do a PHD for at least another couple of …
I am one of those people who could never keep up with journals and diaries, and last a couple of days at most before forgetting to write about my day; to be honest when I thought about trying the bullet-journal system I was sure it would go the same way as every other journal and …
This post is inspired by Sarah Hawkinson's video (below) that she put up last year, I have wanted to do a response for a while, but needed to correlate my thoughts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzfenvAc_qk&nohtml5=False I left school at seventeen with hardly any qualifications and hardly any friends. School wasn't a pleasant experience for me, while I …
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Disclaimer: I am still new to this religion, so some-things may be wrong. I am open to constructive criticism so please message me. I made a video the other day on my YouTube channel about the terms and a simple overview of what Hellenic Polytheism is, which you can watch below if you have …
The last month and a half of winter had me focusing on university work for my MA degree, researching for my essay and completing sketchbook work for the practical side. I managed to see my friend a couple of times when she came to Swansea and when I travelled to Cardiff on the few hours …
The beginning of 2016 has not been good in many ways, it seemed for at least January that how I ended 2015 was going to continue for a long while. My maternal nan died on the 18th of January, four days after the anniversary of my paternal grandfathers death. I was not close …
Two- thousand-and-fifteen was a year where I learned a lot about myself. I learned who I want to be and it is not a carbon copy of someone else; low self confidence and social anxiety for nearly all my life lead to the belief that I could never be valued for my self, so …
I have just started a YouTube channel where I plan to talk about my art, writing, poetry, being a Hellenic polytheist, being a vegan, fashion, tattoos and piercings; basically everything I am interested in. There is only one video up on there now about my art practice but I plan to upload a video every week …
Train journeys are such marvellous things, there is a touch of the 'old-ways' about them, even though technically they are not that old. I went to a new train station today, it was almost walled with wild lavender. Of course something was broken and/or being fixed (as everything is these days) so my stepfather had …
Living in a weird bubble lately where I am doing everything but the most important stuff; reading fan-fiction, writing fiction, drawing, moving my bedroom around, and playing with my dog. Good news is that every-thing I mentioned above is basically on track, but my essay (its half done) and sketchbooks (the things that are actually …
For my second Creative Practice lesson we started a 'Thought Experiment' which is based on the Pecha Kucha presentation style. Using the book '101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life,' by Roger-Pol Droit our tutor selected random experiments and placed them in plain brown and white envelopes with the title 'thought experiment' placed on …
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For my first Creative Practice lesson on MA degree, we were taught by poet and writer Catriona Ryan who completed a writing experiment with us. Our first exercise was to write with our left hand(as it is suppose to be your more creative side) with out thinking, something alike the Dada and Surrealist poetry movement …
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