I am still very tentative when it comes to making plans, but I am slowly becoming more confident. Another part of healing, the one that I am still struggling with, is imagining a future where things are different. There is something extremely validating in sharing a part of yourself that makes you feel alone and realizing that, in fact, many others can relate. Part of this process involves exposing things that haunt me to light. And now, more than ever, I am looking to find a way to heal and become whole. I’ve been reading a lot about the effect trauma has on our minds and bodies, and how it restricts one’s ability to think clearly, feel pleasure and bond with others. I want to reconcile myself with my past and let go of the baggage that’s been dragging me down. This is why right now I am inspired by change and growth. At other times, being-not-quite-here-but-not-there-yet-either feels perfectly natural and even a bit exciting. Sometimes I am finding it hard to adapt to always being in flux, and I yearn for certainty. Lately I’ve been going through many different transitions simultaneously, and I’m often finding myself in liminal spaces. It is more about finding different ways to do things, adjusting one’s expectations, reassessing priorities, or allowing oneself to grieve and move on. I don’t think that “accepting limitations” is the same as “giving up”.
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A zine poking fun at prescription medication labels, a large photographic series confronting the embodied experience of being at the mercy of medical institutions, assemblage sculptures out of prescription medicine bottles, t-shirt designs referencing the spoonie subculture, a community-based art project aiming to de-stigmatize prescription medication use, street art encouraging self-compassion, and many other smaller projects came out of this period of discovering, denying, exploring and finally accepting my limitations. I’ve explored this subject from many different angles in a wide range of media. I have always used my art as a means of dissecting and analyzing my experience, so whatever is going on in my life at any given moment is bound to be reflected in what I create.įor the past several years I’ve mainly been making art that speaks to navigating life with chronic illness. Jasmine says that she plans to send another message in a bottle soon and would quite like a reply from Brazil this time.What, from your life or experiences, has influenced your work most? What do you hope to achieve in your art? Jasmine is now writing a special letter back to Barbara and they are planning to talk on Skype to one another.
Jasmine and her Mum Louise had forgotten about the message in a bottle, until they were surprised by the letter in the post: If you would like to communicate I am also on Facebook or just write and let me know you received my note. I hope my note finds you well and brings you joy to know it has landed safely into my hands on the 13th of September 2012. I must share with you that I was so excited to find a message in a bottle. I scooped it up and we drove home with it where we opened it. My brother Colin and I were walking along the beach for some exercise collecting shells and reminiscing about our childhood when I saw your little bottle. Your message in a bottle took five months to float up on Largs Bay Beach in South Australia. I searched online on the computer to find out what I could, yes the pier exists and yes your address was there too.
Grandmother Barbara Richards wrote to Jasmine to tell her she had found the message in a bottle Credit: ITV Centralĭear Jasmine, As fate would have it we have been introduced to each other by your message in a bottle, Bournemouth Pier looks very interesting.
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