June Thread & Thought: The Body As Story
Notes from the session and creative prompts
Thread & Thought is a monthly, hour-long creative session online where we follow a thread and deepen a thought. I run Thread & Thought as part of my practice as a writer and art historian and these are low-pressure workshops designed to help you carve out time to write, reflect, and experiment.
What happens in a session:
A welcome and a warm-up exercise or two
We study an artwork - individually and together - I’ll guide you through this & give some art historical detail too
We sit together and write (or sketch!)
There is the option to reflect or share, if it feels right, at the end of the session. Or we have a discussion on the artwork and/or the theme.
Body As Story
The theme for June was Body as Story and I wanted to think about bodies as surfaces. Landscapes that - in the marks of skin, skeleton, posture - can recall memory, imagination, and possibility.
The theme was prompted by this self-portrait by Kiki Smith.
Look at it for a while. How does your eye move across the surface? Can you orientate yourself? Where are you drawn to? What are we looking at?
