The creative writing displayed around the exhibition was written in September and was conceived with the emotional associations around surgery in mind. In this session, we used free writing based on word association, as well as Ekphrastic techniques to generate pieces of creative writing. Free writing involves jotting down whatever comes to mind, without thinking about it too much and without stopping. Ekphrastic writing is a literary technique which involves vividly describing images. Each co-curator brought an image that resonated with them and their journey to the session, and images were also provided in case anyone did not have one or wanted to try something different. We were asked to “enter” our image, either by imagining that we were transported into it, or by imagining that we were a person or creature in the image and speaking from their voice.
As you will be able to tell by reading and listening to the pieces of text that were written, these ways of engaging with images allow the author to tap into many different emotions and feelings as the text progresses. By bringing our own images, we were able to directly consider representation and the emotions we associate with feeling represented or, indeed, underrepresented.
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