#jared pike

"Dreampools"

The water's warm today.

sometimes I do love art gcse at my school, what do you mean I’m doing liminal spaces for my ‘urban landscape’ project. WHAT DO YOU MEAN I COULD DRAW MEXIA SUPERMARKET AND MY TEACHER WOULD BE COOL WITH THAT! I know this comes across as a bit crazy, but as someone who had weirdly picky art teachers for a while the freedom is nice :D

Large, inviting swathes of warm sunlight reflect on the white tiles, yet we never directly see the source of light. A choice to turn away.

Emily Dickinson once wrote “Forgive me, if to stroke thy frost/Outvisions paradise!” When imagining her death with her lover, Sue. There is something so tender with love and shame when Dickinson confessed she would rather cherish a cold eternity with Sue than religious acceptance and afterlife.

Safety and escape is offered just a little to the right yet each time without fail the choice is made to look at the shadows, curious and wanting more at the risk of danger deeper within. There is just so much restraint and longing in these renders. To know there is something nicer and still stand with your back to it. To prefer the dark, to risk getting lost just for the sake of it.