Kiri Self
So what’s in your head?
I want to explore the concept of how to show visually what we experience internally in our minds. This will build on my work from last term
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Kiri Self
- Feb 10
- 8 min
Coming Home.
A Sense of Place, a photographic journey to find my home.
Kiri Self
- Jan 29
- 5 min
It’s all about where you stand when you look at it.
"because being clean meant that you had a brain again, which meant that you had to face yourself and who you were, and . . . well, all...
Kiri Self
- Aug 16, 2022
- 5 min
Self Sabotage, grief, and honesty.
A couple of days ago a beautiful human being lost his life to cancer. He was the absolute kindest person you could ever meet, a truly gentle
Kiri Self
- Jun 29, 2022
- 2 min
Chronic Fatigue, Dyeing Yarn, and Crocheting a Blanket
I never really understood chronic fatigue, ever though that has been over the years one of my mums primary diagnoses. But it’s being so...
Kiri Self
- Jun 15, 2022
- 5 min
Ovaries Over and Out.
Well, that all went a bit Pete Tong, didn’t it? For those who know the background, you can skip this bit. Basically, I have a gene...
Kiri Self
- Apr 2, 2022
- 6 min
I’m done. I’m going to love myself and date my friends.
I know. It sounds odd and a quite a lot wanky. But I mean it. I am finally going to learn to love myself. And I’m going to date my friends.
Kiri Self
- Apr 1, 2022
- 4 min
The Shawl! My first commission (and my first shawl)
It is finished! And it is safely with its new owners. The shawl that a friend asked me to make for her first grandchild - it is finally...
Kiri Self
- Mar 22, 2022
- 2 min
Art Class week 7 - overpainting a picture I didn't like
Painting over a picture I really did not like.
Kiri Self
- Mar 11, 2022
- 1 min
Art class week 6 - I paint some sea
I’m not sure what to write today. I have been seriously fatigued the last few weeks which has basically fried my brain. The only creative...
Kiri Self
- Mar 4, 2022
- 2 min
Art class weeks 3 and 5 - OILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I haven’t updated art class for a little while, I needed to combine 2 weeks and I had to get a photo of what I did in week 4. Here are...
Kiri Self
- Feb 17, 2022
- 2 min
The anxiety before the storm
I’m feeling really anxious. I’ve had an amazing few days with F, and that was brilliant, and I have been making great steps forward in...
Kiri Self
- Feb 10, 2022
- 2 min
Anxious attachment - what is it and why does it affect me?
Scrolling through my Instagram this morning, and up popped something that really resonated with me. These are from...
Kiri Self
- Feb 6, 2022
- 1 min
I can’t remember
I can’t remember my teenage bedroom. I can’t remember my childhood bedroom. My memories are like floating bits of dreams, haphazard and...
Kiri Self
- Jan 30, 2022
- 2 min
Painting Granny’s blanket - art class 2!
Art class number 2! It was brilliant, I loved it again. I got there early with my new friend, I’d picked her up on the way. I had taken...
Kiri Self
- Jan 25, 2022
- 3 min
Assault in the City. S1 E1.
This post has been on my mind for months. It’s probably one of the most difficult that I will write. But one of the most important - it...
Kiri Self
- Jan 23, 2022
- 1 min
It’s been a better day
I’ve had a much better day today. I spoke to my friend yesterday evening, and we sorted everything out. He was really sorry that he’d...
Kiri Self
- Jan 22, 2022
- 2 min
What goes up must come down right? Stupid law of physics.
I’m dithering about posting this. But if you’re reading then I guess I bit the bullet and hit that button. After a brilliant day...
Kiri Self
- Jan 21, 2022
- 2 min
Arty Farty Kiri! Landscape drawing and painting and all new exciting things
So, you may or may not know but I had a huge (messy) breakdown, quit London, and moved to the coast to recover. Like all good middle age...
Kiri Self
- Jan 12, 2022
- 2 min
Old man
5am and I’m awake, thoughts running around my head like they are a party of five years olds who’ve just discovered an unattended bowl of swe
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