Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne is a show consisting almost entirely of reproductions. A tattered, frenetic display of nearly a thousand images of paintings, coins and sculpture, sketches, pages torn from books, stamps, adverts and family trees. Named after Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, this vast map of images traces the roots…

I was in her head the same as she was in mine. It was easy. A connection. Vines and tendrils entwining around each other, rooting through our bodies and binding us together so we mirrored the landscape that surrounded us. Fertility and life all wrapped up with our skin. They…

Ok, so I’ve recently became freelance (yes that’s right, at the beginning of an enormous recession, with mass unemployment rates and basically the whole world on fire- I timed it well). Now this may not be news to you, but it turns out being a freelance writer is not a…

Musings on the End of a Relationship — My ex-boyfriend and I are dividing up our possessions. It is a small shared kingdom and comprises only of one lamp, one crocheted blanket, a cup, and a selection of small stones. Scant evidence, we decide, of such an intense and interdependent relationship. …

Locked out. I miss art. I miss museums and galleries and shared experiences. I miss the feeling of getting up close to a painting of an artist I love (long dead) and knowing that it was looked at with their eyes, created by their hand. That the very idea for…

And I’m fine with that. — Lockdown has taught me a few things. One: I cannot bake. Two: late night drinking and early morning (worse — self-motivated) yoga will never be mutually exclusive. And three: my boyfriend will never (ever) be my best friend. And I’m fine with it. I will be the first to admit…

Furious. You are furious. Fury is hardly a passive emotion but here you are, two months deep into your law abiding stasis, buoyed up on boredom and internet news. The grotesque, awful and unjust tragedies skim around you like oil on water. You catch their outlines out of the corner…

Early this morning I have a dream where some weird infection is spreading over the world, and everyone has been told that they can only socialise with the people they live with. …

Distracted, lethargic, slightly sad, quietly and incessantly anxious. Bored, quite argumentative and prone to small but significant…