19th February 2018: Siam Surgery / The Waiting Room Bump Into / Feeling Bodies / Lucien Freud

Today, to be thankful / to be grateful,

for the Siam Surgery and its excellent Doctors.

for bumping into an old friend in the waiting room at the surgery.

for feeling your body, identifying your true shape and shapes. You can only really do this by using it in different ways. I’ve been using my mine in a very repetitive way of late and forgotten about its limits and possibilities. I think of Lucien Freud’s wonderful portraits when I think of bodies. He really gets into the skin, the fat, the muscle, the bones and shape. The stretching, the drooping. The irregularity. The peculiarity. The beauty.