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
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. I’m not used to London yet. Back in New York City, I knew where I was at any given moment. on a clearly marked grid. In London, I walk slowly. ‘You’ve changed’, my husband says. Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. On the beach in an indigo evening the strobe of St Mary’s lighthouse pulses through my body: absence, gleam, darkness, blaze. I turn and view the land. Light kaleidoscopes, fragmenting as I spin from black Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. I walk from back to front in this space. On one side water is opened by glass; on the other side, great slabs are paved up into the sky. I can see Dundee but only Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. Once, he broke into a thousand pieces, and his colours faded. Shattered into tiny fragments of himself, scattered across the room, every bit of him strewn, dispersed and disparate. Each dejected section of him uneven, Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. It’s unsettling―Emmanuel Frémiet’s Gorilla Defeating a Gladiator. That’s what the card on the wall will tell you, but you don’t need to be told. In this gloomy corner you’re face-to-face with a fiend — his Read More
I Here is Shepstone Road, and here is the vinegar that runs from your mouth. Here is your black family car and your father idling in the front seat. Here is his broken elbow from his recent fall, the gravel still under his skin. Here again is the apple you ate this morning when you Read More