Yoga Pose and You Will See by Robert P. Clarke

Yoga Pose and You Will See by Robert P. Clarke

Sit comfortably in a chair,

Close your eyes,

and slow your breathing.

Start to imagine drawing a picture,

using an imaginary object to make your mark,

draw a round object in your picture

and imagine what size it will be,

visualise yourself making this circle

Using another medium

If you were using paint before,

Now use a chisel to carve

Step inside what you have created.

Experience it.

Dream it.

Smash it.

Distort the fragmented object

and bend these into a new object.

Now take that object

and dream what you will do with it.

Build a story around your new object,

a narrative story,

that uses symbolic references in your life…

Now open your eyes,

look around

and take your new reality,

Take it with you…

Take it away

And dream more

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The Form by Robert P. Clarke

The Form

There is a form within a form

A fold within a fold

The body around the mesh

A drawing in my mind

That is a tension under my skin

That needs to be released

That desires to be represented

Built into a physical realisation

From a strain that I hadn’t thought of before

There is a line around a circle

A square box frames this shape

And in my mind, I imagine

This world is now a different space

I am anxious for its future

The environment

Climate change

The aesthetic of concept

The notions I had in mind

Your thoughts

My view

I look within

You find a mirror

This is my reflection

Of what I perceive

The shape

The form

It is craving my desire

It is corrupt

A missing link in the chain

Chipping away at my creation

The drawing of the shell

The drawing of a shape on a page

Ever changing

My Mind tries to catch up

And my dreams

I will be with you

One day

Drawing life into my creation

That is inside of me

This malignant form will live

I decide

And sigh

Which way shall the sculpture lie?

Which way shall the sculpture stand?

“It will sit over there”, I imagine again

My pen imagines every space

My drawing imagines every angle

I close my eyes and think,

Until tomorrow

Find Your Own My Time by Robert P. Clarke

Find Your Own My Time by Robert P. Clarke

Find your own space

With the face that you’re on

As the train stops at the station

Lift your head up from the phone

Raise a brow, Berry Brow,

We’re not quite there just yet

So I bury my face back down smart

To find my own time

It’s not really that cool

Hash Tag, It’s sad in the end

I’m a bit lonely really

And a bit depressed too

I missed all the action

The lively scenery passing by

The rolling hills, green and lush

And a fleeting glance in the distance

Of the Emley Moor Mast

And looking out over Denby Dale

From its impressive arched bridge

If only I’d have stopped off there

I could have eaten a slice of pie

Then stopping at Penistone,

The music hall from the past

Playing old dancing music

Swaying along with it

And singing out loud

As we pass Silkstone Moor

Then we head towards Barnsley

Which has a place in my heart

Where my dad really smiled

Born in a terrace there

He really embraced this place

And just before he passed

He reminisced from the past

His child hood experiences

Playing out in the street

And I looked up from my smart phone

I’d have probably missed

All my historical connections

From my past,

Finally catching up

And I find my Own Dwell Time

With the face that I’m on

As the train stops at the station

I lift my head up

From the smart phone that’s my life

I raise a second brow now,

Just past Meadowhall,

The Sheffield lad I’ve turned into,

I get up to depart,

From the train terminating,

And I dream of a time,

When we can all enjoy,

This dwell time…

I’ve enjoyed

 

Neural Integration (2017) by Sonia Ben Achoura

Neural Integration
76 x 101.5 cm
Acrylic on canvas

This painting is inspired by interpersonal therapy. Also known as the ‘talking cure’, this therapeutic process requires active involvement by two people. Rather than a passive listener, the psychotherapist engages with the experience of the patient. The mechanism whereby healing occurs during therapy is through neural integration, involving high levels of empathy and insight from the therapist to transform dissociation of experience into integration. In these optimal conditions, healing occurs. In neurological terms, this process involves the rewiring of brain pathways.

About the artist:

The mystery of human existence is one that I explore through both art and science, two disciplines which overlap in my work. An artist and psychologist, I draw inspiration from my academic investigations. My work explores psychological phenomena, concepts and theories including dreams, therapy, mindfulness, or neuroscience. My paintings often focus on aspects that hold potential for improving psychological well-being. I attempt to create art works that are conducive to improved well-being and deeper states; Paintings that focus the mind, silence inner chatter, for the achievement of deeper states of mind.

www.soniabenachoura.com

Train Ticket Thoughts on the Penistone Line 23/01/20

Join Dwell Time on the Penistone Line for a unique workshop in poetry and drawing on train tickets.

Get onboard the 10:12 – 11:28 Huddersfield to Sheffield and/or 11:35 – 12:50 Sheffield to Huddersfield trains at any station to join in a free, relaxed and informal workshop using train tickets to create poems and art works.

Materials, refreshments and train travel provided. Please let us know which station you intend to embark and alight at to ensure your complimentary travel as part of the workshop.

Dwell Time is an award winning, not-for-profit publication reflecting on mental wellbeing. Produced and curated by Alice Bradshaw, Vanessa Haley & Lenny Szrama in collaboration with Penistone Line Partnership. Founded in 2018. Currently funded by Penistone Line Partnership, ACORP, Northern & CrossCountry.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/train-ticket-thoughts-tickets-86606601677

Sea Poetry (2019) by Louisa Pankhurst Johnson

I am obsessed with photographing water mostly the sea. Seeing the images in my ‘minds eye’ is a devotional experience.
My ‘Sea Poetry’ Images’ are created while in a state of ‘Social Mystification’ which I transfigure into sublime canvases of Reposeful and Spiritual Contemplation’.

‘Sea Poetry’ embodies the work of Karl Marx, Aristotle, John Berger, Rothko, Kazimir Malevich and John Piper.

https://louisajohnsonvisualpoet.com