The Woods

A and E

So inspirational ! I love this so so much! makes me want to cry a bit ....
Maybe i should make a film if i get this inspired by a music video!
link : Goldfrapp music video

Bushy Park and Home

Wednesday's and Thursday's wonders

Wednesday 23rd of February

Keira Knightly is a skeleton witch. Her beauty has a power over people which means no one can deny her. I am so jealous of her and can not put her out of mind. I want her clothes, her  face, her boyfriend, everything.  I see her eyes stare at me ; she is not afraid to use black magic.

Thursday 24th of Feb : morning

I think I understand what happens when we dream. People never remember how and when exactly they fall asleep. I did this once last night.

When we fall asleep it means our soul has come out of our bodies. I body continues to work  and our mind remains connected to our soul. The soul can travel as the same speed as light. Therefore it can go anywhere it wants( this explains why we dream of places we have never been before). Our soul meets others peoples souls( often the souls of people we know because the soul feels a connection to those spirits and can find them more easily) Our souls does not feel inhibited in anyway, therefore it isn’t odd for our soul to be friendly with souls of those we don not like in the daytime.

 However a soul can wonder somewhere and  by chance pump into the soul of someone we don’t know. This  is rare but explains why we feel we have already met someone , or moments déjà vu. 

Thursday

 Today  I  am going into the secret garden.  It brings tears to my eyes as I recall the last time I went there. How time  goes by so quickly. As I push the gate I feel the magic al over again. The land is free. The forests- the lakes- the plains. As I walk towards the forest I see balloons among the back trees and bears, owl people come out. I am dressed in a long dress and my hair is up. It’s been a while since we last met so we catch up.

We go to the lakes tp meet the bird people. Swan is there ; he gets out of the water. We find the deers , they are in the tall ferns , they let us ride them. It is time for the party.

We light the bomb fire . We dance , we perform our rituals.

Thursday afternoon:

Each door goes to a different world. Choose one.

I'm coming home

On wednesday afternoon I decided it would be better for me to go home to do my  work. In my action plan I am meant to revisit the places that haunted me as a child so the next last few days I have done just that.
First I went to Teddington to go to one of my favourite parks : Bushy park. It was perfect for my daydreams as I saw swans, deer and yeah, generally loads of willdlife . I also kept thinking about those playsacks I had seen at the childhood museum. I also had an idea about a different tittle for my project : 
ANNE- SOPHIE IN WONDERLAND


I then went  " home home " and had walk in the park nearest to my house where Emilia and I used to play.
Today we went to wales to see my granny and it has been a really successful day as i managed to film my younger cousins play in the woods where we used to play. I also photographed many things I remember playing with and the places used to make my dens.

- THE CHILDHOOD MUSEUM - What an adventure!

The Childhood museum is one of the best museums I have been to in a long time- I classify it in the same league as the natural history museum in oxford that I adore.

As I arrived inside all I could see were children running about and mothers trying to catch up with them. So many inquisitive children picking up and playing with odd looking objects. In the entrance were a collection of book art style  pieces that were deeply inspiring. Inside  there was more mayhem but  what should one expect in a childhood museum!?  

The rest of the museum was deeply moving; as I passed doll houses, soft toys and interactive installations I couldn't help wanting to see all of it through the eyes of  my younger self.  I imagined how a space like this would feel to a child ; how exciting it would be to see a giant doll house, 10 times as big as your barbie house at home! Nevertheless, being my older self did not prevent me from  saying oooooowwww, and wooooowwwww every five seconds. 

The museum was rich with objects and imagery that allowed my imagination to thrive .... My fantasy for that day was particularly vivid. I watched the children and how they seemed in a hypnotic  trance as spinned moving image lamps or the smiles on their faces as they rode on wooden horses.

This goes to show that the imagination of a child is a precious powerful thing ; old fashioned toys were were perfect for this however nowadays video games and other sorts leave no room for fantasies ; the  imagining part has already been done and served on a plate for the child to swallow.

Bearing in mind my project I was very interested in some of the objects that represented fantasies; some where scenes that had become boxes inside a miniature theater.

I think I do not realise yet to what extent this visit has inspired me and so I will continue to comment on this experience at a later date, I'm sure.

The Childhood Museum