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"It doesn't have to be like this. We could have it so much better"

Calligraffiti in Chicago, Illinois

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Interior Design

The inside of our houses show what we have held onto throughout our life, and as people all built from the same stone, our experiences and what we take from them are a valid form of self expression.

Look around the room you’re in right now, if you’re well off enough to have plenty of belongings in a safe and clean home. What items do you have sitting around you, and where did they come from?

I look to my left on the desk before me, and there is a glasses case. I got them when I had my first office job because the screens hurt my eyes. The optometrist told me I should eat more fish because my eyes were a little bit dry, and when I went to pick them up I could only get a carpark about a 15 minute walk away, and it happened to be a day when I decided to wear my high heels to work. They looked great, but after a full day my feet were aching, so I trotted to the glasses store with a swagger that comes out naturally when you just want to take your fucking shoes off and sit down. It was nice, however, to see the optometrist, and it was my first pair of glasses. I got the cheapest glasses, because the lenses were expensive, but they were also my favourite, and I just got the free case they came with. They reminded me of Gisele from Devil Wears Prada, and a lot of office outfits were influenced by her after I started wearing them. All wasted in that job, no-one ever looked up from their screens, and there was a problem with the sewage in that building so it always sort of stank.

So that’s what comes to mind when I see those glasses, and they sit to the left of me now by the desk. A tiny reminder of a large and unimportant journey. They hold my life within them, and I am reminded of that every day.

So to you, again, now you’ve looked around, might I invite you to look around again and pick a small object. Pick the most unimportant one you can see, and discover what part of your life that object holds. What connections do you make when you look at it? What does it mean to you?

The objects that we hold onto, the things that we take with us from the experiences of our lives, hold our lives within them. It’s so important to clean out what you don’t want to keep holding onto, and it’s just as important to cherish what has stuck around for so long, and what you keep around you to remind yourself of where you’ve been. In a perfect world, a home would be filled with happy stories of the lives of the people that live inside it. The walls wouldn’t tell stories of shouting or abuse, and you could look in every cupboard, every drawer and every corner of a room, and be reminded of something you wanted to see. But the world and life is not perfect. There will be marks on walls and there will be bad memories stored within the things you once held so dear, that are now tainted and confused, and sometimes you might not bear to look at it. But it was a time that has been and gone, and you can now look over your possessions and decide; will this stay or will this go?

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Warship Wreck Diving

Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia

The HMAS Brisbane is a warship that was decommissioned, and later sunk in 2005. It now sits on the floor of the ocean 2.9 nautical miles out to sea from Alexandra Headland on the Sunshine Coast. The old guided missile destroyer now serves as a home to amazing sea life, and is a popular diving site for Sunny Coast locals and worldwide travelers alike.

Reaching its lowest depth at 25 metres, it’s an easy dive. Many of the best bits to explore are above the 18-metre mark, so don’t be dismayed if you’ve just got an open water course under your belt.

Holes have been made in the hull so you can swim in the rooms, and in one room you can even make out the toilets that the old Navy personnel would have used in the throes of the war. They’re just like us.

The inside rooms host many coral covered hidey holes where you can spot curious lobsters and other critters living out their everyday lives.

Outside of the hull, fish, manta rays, turtles, and eels surround you – and maybe a shark every now and then, but don’t worry about that, they’re usually harmless. Do worry about the lion fish though, they can really hurt you.

If you’re on the Sunshine Coast and you want to explore the marine life, this wreck is the place to do it. Join one of the local diving groups and drive out 20 minutes to the site from Mooloolaba and immerse yourself in this underground playground. It’s the most fun you can have completed submerged in water!

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Funeral of a Fairy (Maxmilián Pirner, 1888)

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Put your head on a pedestal and you're bound to tip over.

It will happen as they keep calling you over.

But you can say goodbye, you know,

That's not all you have hold of.

For better, there's always nothing,

The thick black waters of peace.

Go to the middle and balance,

When you float you can't fall over,

but you will drown, until you realise,

You're already breathing in the water.

For better, there's always nothing,

The sparkling water of ease.

For better, there's always nothing,

The thick black waters of peace.

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Mystery solvers

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insomnia

remedios varo

1947

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Peter Birkhäuser (1911–1976) - Moth, c. 1944-45

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Misting

Watercolor on Black Cotton Paper

2023, 22"x 30"

Purple Asters

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Seppo Similä (Finnish, 1938) - Pelko (Fear) (n.d.)

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René Magritte

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In 1992, Sinead O'Connor ripped up a picture of the Pope on live television, in protest of the rampant child sexual abuse the Catholic Church was actively covering up.

Ten days later, she was scheduled to perform at Madison Square Gardens, as part of a celebration of Bob Dylan. As soon as she got to the microphone, the audience began loudly booing her, seemingly in unison.

The organizers tasked Kris Kristofferson with removing O'Connor from the stage. He instead went out and put his arm around her and checked in on her and stayed until she'd steadied herself and was ready to perform. When she came off stage, he wrapped her in a bear hug.

"Sinead had just recently on Saturday Night Live torn up a picture of the Pope, in a gesture that I thought was very misunderstood. And she came out and got booed. They told me to go get her off the stage and I said 'I'm not about to do that'

I went out and I said 'Don't let the bastards get you down'. She said 'I'm not down' and she sang. It was very courageous. It just seemed wrong to me, booing that little girl out there. But she's always had courage."

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Total Eclipse of The Sun (Wilhelm Kranz, 1897)