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"In the mountains I met with Love Saturating Being dissolving barriers  Wholeness in every moment of Creation in gratitude and wonder" I could never have imagined a landscape like this one before Kelly, Ann and I  drove the long 8 hour drive from Denver,Colorado to Arches National Park, Utah in July earlier this year. In anticipation of our two day only trip, I had read about the area, but nothing would have prepared me for the sheer,dramatic physical experience of this shockingly, stunning landscape. A timelessness seemingly untouched by thousands of years of life on earth. "View from Windows Arch" We were surrounded by harsh and exquisitely beautiful formations. It was easy to imagine this world being created. The following are snippets I wrote in my diary before going to bed on the first evening of our trip. 7pm ..arriving in  Arches Park "Balanced Rock" Drove to Balanced Rock.  Walked around.  E

This project was a real treat.  The inspiration for it came from "Little People in the City", - a compact book of absorbing  photographs of tiny, painted handmade models of people by the urban artist Slink achu. Slinkachu is a London-based artist whose creations can be found in doorways and cracks in the pavement across the capital . "Mixing sharp humour with a delicious edge of melancholy, Little People in the City brings together the collected photographs of Slinkachu, a street-artist who for several years has been leaving little hand-painted people in the bustling city to fend for themselves, waiting to be discovered… Oddly enough, even when you know they are just hand-painted figurines, you can’t help but feel that their plights convey something of our own fears about being lost and vulnerable in a big, bad city.” The Times. We loved his work, and ran a sculpty/photographic workshop based on this theme as part of Ranelagh Arts Festival 2012