JOURNAL
Window is a journal Maria Amidu started in January 2015, it is a repository for her random musings on significant and insignificant things
Sunday Service
Gospel (for me) is so powerful because it’s about courage and resistance in the face of such brutality (rather than about worshipping a god through song). Also, the way people were using their voices so beautifully at such a terrorising and terrifying time always, always astounds me. (Sunday Service - one of the good things Mr. West did before seriously messing up).
freewriting
sky
Early this morning as I looked outside I witnessed the red sky warning. A heavy cloud with the face of a demon was being graciously persuaded by a north east breeze into letting go of itself and becoming harmless smoky pieces, making way for the softest of powdery blues to take centre stage. Continuing on the theme of gazing, yesterday I watched the fullest of moons spread its super blue light across everything, I had to open the door so I could look at it without interruption from the cool pane of glass my head was resting on. 
The Last Repair Shop
This is beautiful for so many reasons! Humanity at our very best! (If you only have time to watch one thing on here, make it this!)
“Los Angeles is one of the last American cities to provide free and freely repaired musical instruments to its public schoolchildren, a continuous service since 1959. From Oscar®-nominated directing duo Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers, The Last Repair Shop grants an all access pass to the downtown warehouse where a handful of devoted craftspeople keep over 80,000 student instruments in good repair.”
alternative biog
What to say about myself? I am a visual artist and writer currently doing a PhD, although I prefer to say I am a researcher, it is easier, less pressure because half the time when people ask me: so what’s it about, I am tempted to say who the heck knows?! Doing this kind of degree is a wonderfully bewildering experience and most of the time it is impossible to give a straightforward answer. A friend once asked me: what’s your passion, and it took me a while to respond because I was thinking it needed to be a thing, like music or food, but my true passion is people. I am fascinated by the relational, how we communicate and connect – well and badly – and the impact our words and actions have on each other, especially our words. Two years into my research made me realise everything I have ever been interested in is all about the voice – the part of us we use to express out into the world what is going on inside. Other things I like: singing, especially collectively, no surprise there; reading, no surprise there either (books raised me and raise me still); and yoga (breathing consciously so often underrated).