Art That Nobody Sees
On leaving art as legacy, slowing down, nominating the Keeper of the Key
Jacqueline Calladine
Writing about my ordinary life as an artist.
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A Digest of Ordinary Moments
July 2026
An artist date in London. Actually, several artist dates.
The Ordinary Diary
Behind The Scenes Of The Royal Drawing School
A working notebook of myth hiding in ordinary things.
We Are Nature
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published i don't have many words at the moment but the ones I do have are comforting like a warm breeze against my naked skin i haven't been online much recently and i have felt my body relax in the way it does when i lie on the grass and look up at the sky breathing with the clouds chanting i am nature i am nature Text within this…
A.I. Couldn't Make This Up
A working notebook of myth hiding in ordinary things.
Behind The Practice
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A Metal Bird Dropped Me In A Burning City
I was swallowed by a gigantic metal bird and flown 5,000 miles East to a burning city. When the bird landed, it didn’t know where to spit me out because the heat had broken the guidance traffic lights and the bird had to wait for a man with a flag to wave it into the correct nesting box. The bird was a Boeing 777 and yes, I’m in London. And it is indeed burning. I could tell it was hot as soon as…
Sudden Onset Sociability
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On Attaching Stories To Shapes
The red-winged blackbird is described as a common back-garden bird here in the Pacific Northwest, yet I hadn’t heard one until last week. There’s a magical spot I’ve located in between The Bluff and the marsh below, where I linger early in the morning, hand raised to the sky holding my phone, Merlin app open and ready to receive tweets. At 6am, before the sun has heated up the air to the point…