Nicola Hajduk 

 Memories - a moment in time, light through a window, objects dropped on a table top.  All gone when the new visitors arrive.  

Our lives roll on and eventually there is an empty table top.  Only memories bearing witness to the fact that we were ever...

Grief.

We are told that it has four stages.  I don't think this is true.  It feels to me that it is a road that unrolls in front of you.  If you choose to walk the road it keeps unrolling with no particular horizon in view.  It just is.  

This se...

 To discard - to get rid of something or somebody who is no longer considered useful or desirable.  So when we discard people we are seeing them as objects who can be considered as having value - or not.  This can only happen if those who discard others see themselves...

 I remember walking here when I was a child.  I remember the mudflats and, even then, how much I loved the wildness and bleakness.

How it's changed.  As we walked passed the old cottages in the harbour I could see into them as it was now dusk.  They looked like the...

 I was very moved watching the documentary about Sheikha Latifa.  For those who don't know, she is a princess and a member of the Dubai royal family.  She made a documentary about how she had to live her life and how she was desperate to escape it.  She described how,...

In my eyes obviously beautiful.  The desire behind what (or who) we discard and abandon:  to be seen as beautiful.

 I am trying to show with these works the desire behind what (or who) we discard and see as worthless to be seen as who they are.  Beautiful and desirable.

Wanted to add my support today to encourage men to talk about their feelings on International Men's Day.  The suicide rate for men is horrifying and it is so awful that the main cause is that men have been so shamed about talking about how they feel.

It's OK to say you...

Part of my series about Autumn in London.  

Boarded up shops.  Once again, beauty in the most unexpected places. 

I was watching an interview with the german artist, Andrea Buttner , talking about her work with shame and how it has been a theme in some of the art that she has made.  I am interested in why we...