ART & POETRY

Hello dear readers! If you’re new here, I’m Angelica, I’m an artist (in all senses of the word), and I use this newsletter to tell you about things I’ve done, or am doing, which may include artwork and art-adjacent activities.

With that said…

I’ve just passed 150 subscribers!!!

While I don’t think metrics are particularly important, I can’t deny that this makes me happy. I have treated my art/ music/ writing practice as a somewhat clandestine or at least *private* activity for several years now, and I’m glad to be opening up access to my work (& world) slowly but surely.

Thank you for being here on this journey with me, whether it’s been a while, or you’re brand new. I’m not sure where it’s going, if anywhere… perhaps we’re just grooving in one place, watching the world turn~

Me, watching the world/ myself, at the co-op self-service checkout :)

As well as doing a little celebratory dance, my (other) reason for writing to you today is quite simple: I am happily sharing an article written about my work via the remote body !! It came out the other day and the response has already been really, really lovely.

The two oil paintings are from around 2021, so more or less lockdown times, and the painting-poem has a slightly more fluid and capacious date — I wrote the poem almost 10 years ago and dug it out of the archives to transform it into a “picture” very recently.

I hope you enjoy reading/ looking. There is also an option to listen if that’s more accessible for you.

In other news, I’ve been reconnecting to myself and to nature through some lovely woodland walks, crunching leaves under my feet that have already fallen and admiring the ones still hanging on as they shimmer in the breeze; orange, yellow… golden.

Walking clears my mind, helping me to put away things that I am done with and open up things I want to explore anew. It helps to connect the dots that seem oh so disparate. It’s good exercise, too!

I actually held a three-part workshop on walking and drawing last year, and it was received very well.

On a separate note, it’s been great to see creators on this platform with similar thoughts to myself, writing about technology, screen time, and so on. I think it should be more usual to discuss the detrimental effects of the Internet, of constant scrolling, of our phones being appendages, even if it is discussed online (!)

Reading one piece by Naomi Alderman on stretching our intellectual capacities to shore against brain rot and (a particular kind of) burnout has inspired me to pick up French and Japanese again. I may share updates on here!! I won’t lie, I’m a little intimidated by the three writing systems in Japanese and have only learnt some hiragana characters so far…

We’ll see how it goes. Perhaps writing about it here holds me somewhat accountable ;)

I think that’s all from me today…

If you’re interested in the painting-poem, have a read of my last newsletter where I talk about hybridity and the relationship(s) between disciplines.

If you’re new here, check out my website and YouTube page! I’m glad you’re joining me in this great community of weird folk (weird in the best way).

And, if you’re a paid subscriber, read on because I’m going to take you through some of the process of creating my painting-poem!!

I appreciate you all.

Lots of love,

Angelica xxx