c/o Jayne Wilton: Reflex-ive :: Reflection - Breathe : DO - REPEAT - WHILE

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'Many of us will have experienced playing with the interaction of our breath on shiny surfaces such as windows and mirrors, allowing us temporary fields of condensation in which to doodle thoughts or messages. In emergency situations a mirror or shiny surface is held in front of the mouth of a subject to confirm whether or not they are breathing. The Breathe series makes use of these dynamics. The breath of a series of  individuals was captured on a shiny copper surface and then etched to create a negative of the breath where it sat on the copper plate. The result is a series of evocative landscapes. This work employs and yet subverts traditional printing processes. The inscription of spent breath onto precious metal immortalises a discharge and presents an alternative to portraiture.' Jayne

Reflection - Reflexive   Resuscitation    mirror

Wilton - is a visual artist who explores the breath as a unit of exchange between people and their environments. Her practice uses darkroom processes with drawing, photography, video and sound to capture the usually invisible trace of breath as it moves across a surface. www.jaynewilton.com

My source and thanks to Jayne Wilton: 

Jayne Wilton. Breathe, Artist's Statement. Resurgence & Ecologist, July/August2023: 339: p.47 & (p.49 image).

Previously: 'breathing' : 'reflex' : 'reflection' : 'art'

The poetry of presence c/o Kenner's 'Mechanic Muse'

'... Eliot's poetry responds to yet another of the new century's pervasive experiences, that of being talked to by people we cannot see. This happens whenever we pick up a telephone, a thing we do so many times a day we quite overlook the strangeness of what lappens next. A character in The Cocktail Party remarks that you can't tell the truth on the telephone, meaning probably that you lose three quarters of your communicative power when you cannot be seen and your breathing body is absent, and you must fabricate mere semantic sequences. Your words are only a fraction of what you say, and the telephone throws you back on nothing but words. It is in Sweeney Agonistes, the play that gives the telephone bell a wholly metrical speaking part, that we hear the famous phrase, "I gotta use words vhen I talk to you."
    When the phone rings in that play - 

    Ting a ling ling 

    Ting a ling ling

Dusty snatches it up and says,

Hello Hello are you there?' 

Kenner, H. (1987) The Mechanic Muse, Oxford: OUP. pp.34-35.

'The Trip' - learning about Kay Parley RIP

Five prompts drew me to BBC Radio's 'The Trip':

1. the ongoing tenor of 'discussion' on twitter;
2. the ongoing history and future development and evolution of psychoactive, psychedelic medicines as treatments, running concurrently, or not with psychotherapy and psychosocial interventions (PSI);
3. being mindful of keeping up-to-date;
4. what is the temperature within critical psychiatry / mental heath / mental illness / well-being?
5. and how does all this 'sit' within Hodges' model?

As a student registered mental heath nurse, we learned about the historical introduction of chlorpromazine and other drugs, the difference they made to 'care' and the side-effects.

Pharmacology is dynamic. Atypical antipsychotics are now available. But this series, as the title confirms is about psychedelics and history from 08:30.

The episode highlights the importance of how sessions are delivered. Key points, given the additional pressures (UK) upon intakes for student nurse places for learning disability and mental health, plus questions about the status of these courses within university-based nurse education. If not already aware, the episode concludes with the role of a mental health nurse who died in May. Have a listen about Kay Parley.

THE TRIP - BBC Radio

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002gqxs

It would have been marvellous to meet, speak to Nurse Parley. The episode has it's objectives of course, but there are values here. We are all test pilots, researchers.

"The American Journal of Nursing February 1964:

No role, is so welcomed on our psychiatric unit, as that of sitting with a patient during LSD therapy. This indicates that the treatment has value." ...

"Kate Parley passed away in May, so our last words will be hers. Words she would say to her patients at Weyburn, all those years ago.

'You are off on a trip with no baggage, no destination and no compass. That's why I'm here. I can't go with you, but I can be your anchor.

Wherever you go, you'll always be able to see me. I'll be the nurse who sits beside your bed. Taking notes and playing your records.

You'll never lose touch with me. Seeing me, you'll know, you are really in hospital and that you'll be back to Earth about 4 o'clock. I will send you signals too, to encourage your explorations.

I will remind you of places you longed to revisit and events you hope to scan.'"

PARLEY, KAY. Supporting the Patient. AJN, American Journal of Nursing 64(2):p 80-82, February 1964. 

https://www.openurses.org/_files/ugd/52de8b_870deaa149e842d286e76131b1321285.pdf

https://andrewpenn.substack.com/p/in-memoriam-kay-parley-rpn-registered

Todd, Betsy MPH, RN. Supporting the Patient on LSD Day. AJN, American Journal of Nursing 121(6):p 42-44, June 2021. | DOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000753656.16844.a9 

"A Peculiar Shade of Blue" c/o Rowan Jacqueline

 

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personal grief ..	the facts of life, death and place ..

 

Rowan Jacqueline: https://www.spiderflower.org/

My source: https://twitter.com/artdotearth

"All in the Mind" (and model): Ambiguous Loss

"Have you ever lost a loved one who was still a part of your life in some way? Did it leave you feeling confused or frozen about how to continue with life? Claudia Hammond examines the distressing phenomenon known as ambiguous loss – the enormous challenge of dealing with a loss when you aren’t sure what’s happened, leaving you searching for answers, unable to move on." 

BBC Radio 4 "All in the Mind" 1st December, 2020 (Available for one year)

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psychological ambiguous loss ambivalence, grief, loss guilt, reality, meaning BOTH-AND thinking -	physical ambiguous loss a body is missing head injury - the impact of dementia on a person

 

Keith Arnatt Reflected Shadows

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Self-Burial with Mirror, 1969	Invisible Hole, Revealed by the Shadow of the Artist, 1968

Keith Arnatt Estate
http://www.keitharnatt.com/

Images:  Keith Arnatt: the conceptual photographer who influenced a generation, British Journal of Photography.

My source: Knight, J. SNAPSHOT, Life&Arts, FT Weekend, 29-30 August 2015, p.16.

Recipe for tension: Left-of-center values - Human (lower) Rights

Sometimes the invisible is most visible ...

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Person visible - invisible in the conceptual frame	Where is your science now?
'Peace' the ultimate meme? Discuss.	"Human (lower) Rights"

Image source: Heiko Junge [20/27] Kansas City Star
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/09/2509904/empty-chair-left-for-jailed-chinese.html