by Tom Tomaszewski | Feb 11, 2022 | Thinking
Life is always more than you can imagine. I need many different ways of thinking about life, from a palimpsest of experience, from music, poetry and cinema and philosophy and whatever, whoever if I am to do this job of mine: psychotherapist. Lately I have become so...
by Tom Tomaszewski | Oct 19, 2021 | Thinking
Someone I know mentioned a piece of advice she used to give students when she was teaching: say something in a class and you’ll remember it better. We tend to remember things better if we try to recall them as close as possible to where we committed them to...
by Tom Tomaszewski | Jan 24, 2021 | Thinking
| ‘Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1’ or ‘Portrait of the Artist’s Mother’, Whistler, 1871 Awful writes put boring limits on things. Whistler’s painting, which he called ‘Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 ‘ became a...
by Tom Tomaszewski | Jan 24, 2021 | Thinking
| Kiss of Judas, Giotto, 1304-06) | I read this picture in many different ways, and always Giotto reminds me that there’s more to a scene than a story. Or a single story. This painting might offend you because of its anti-semitism. It might bring up particular...
by Tom Tomaszewski | Nov 24, 2020 | Interiors, Thinking
| We Sit Starving Amidst Our Gold, Jeremy Deller, 2013 | After we have realised something about ourselves we feel different. Our sense of who we are changes. Time, rhythm and intensity feel different to us. Our proprioception changes as we find our place in the world,...
by Tom Tomaszewski | Nov 22, 2020 | Thinking
| The Avenue, Sydenham, Pissarro, 1871 | There is nothing, of course, peculiar, about DH Lawrence having worked in Croydon Library, or Wilfred Bion having thought his thoughts in Croydon, or Camille Pissarro painting streets in Norwood and Sydenham, or Vincent Van...
