Tag Archives: psychology
A Conversation between Death & Convenience
Last week we had an impromptu get-together of the various cardboard ‘gods of our time’ which we’ve so far made. A few of the original ones are looking a bit tatty round the edges as a result of their various … Continue reading
Discovering a god of Convenience
The most recent god to emerge from sheets of cardboard on our cutting table is ‘Convenience’ – a concept inspired by a random conversation with an American lady complaining about its dominance in our lives today. In making new gods … Continue reading
Discovering ‘Nuance’ the goddess
I’ve written a short piece about my experience of unravelling what the concept of “nuance” might mean in our conflicted world through physically making a cardboard life sized Nuance goddess.
Is Lady Luck visible enough?
Our primary motivation in creating life size ‘gods of our time’ is to make visible and conversable the concepts which shape our lives, cultures, politics and thinking. Last summer, we had an improv dialogue between 2 of our ‘gods’ – … Continue reading
Creating gods for our time – what happened?
5 artists from diverse practices and perspectives joined Larks & Ravens for 2.5 days at the Centre for Alternative Technology in October to imagine, explore, play and create together in response to this question: “what gods have shaped our current … Continue reading
What do I see?
How is my view of the world distorted? What’s it distorted by? How is my view different from yours? Which view is “right”? How would I know? Is there an ‘undistorted’ view? … what would that look like?
The Larks and Ravens 