Coming/Going The girl could step off the train, go round by the post office and the pubs, climb the hill and find herself next to the road between two grassy verges. And if she wanted to, she could peel away the layers; from daffodils, to snow, to burnt leaves and watch the video tape rewind. Read More
‘The story opens when I go to the gallery with you.’ I walked in with you. We were chatting, but I was only half-listening. I was distracted by the sculptures in the cabinets and the brightly painted mural on the wall. They faded behind me as we continued to walk and as I stepped up Read More
I have a box of memories. It’s a square brown box – one of those used for moving to a new house, ‘memories’ scrawled on one side in black ink. For years it moved with me and my partner from flat to flat, accumulating a little more in weight each year as we collected little Read More
I am thrilled to present an online collection of writing and art as the first instalment of These Windows, a collaborative publishing project between the University of Dundee and the V&A Dundee. The online gallery, gathered here on DURA, pairs with a forthcoming printed publication to showcase the creative dexterity of DJCAD Illustration BDes Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. She would usually phone me on her break and tell me to wait outside her boyfriend’s flat after five o’clock. We’ll get food, she would say, and watch movies. We were best friends. One time, Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. Legend goes Ma only knew Pa was drinking at work when one day he came home sober. Hypocrite. She could put it back too. Red wine and coke. That’s one thing I don’t like to Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. Kingsessing, USA 23 April 1803 Dearest mother, The birds here are exquisite. I know you want to hear that I have met a good woman and that I’ve changed my ways and have a steady Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. We moved tae Usan when the factory shut and Faither got a joab on the boats. He’d be up at the crack o dawn and awa oot come hell or high tide. When the sea Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. She watched the performance spellbound. Defiantly eyeing the audience, he spoke at length of industrial chimneys; tall, intimidating, bellowing smoke. She met him later wearing a satin dress: round and smooth; purple and shiny as Read More