JOURNAL

Window is a journal Maria Amidu started in January 2015, it is a repository for her random musings on significant and insignificant things

14/06/2017 14/06/2017

plans

too many critics and/or mimics, sometimes it is helpful to keep your plans to yourself

05/06/2016 05/06/2016

decisions

most people encourage you to make decisions based on their own fears, values and insecurities

04/06/2016 04/06/2016

Muhammad Ali

a sad, sad day

22/04/2016 22/04/2016

seeing

to be unseen is one thing, to be seen then actively ignored is something else entirely

21/04/2016 21/04/2016

biggest

what is this obsession with being the most biggest first, what does it all actually mean

21/04/2016 21/04/2016

word collecting

today: things

19/04/2016 19/04/2016

word collecting

today: intersection immediate conceit recalibration

10/04/2016 10/04/2016

exhaustion

twenty first century life, all status and acquisition, it is exhausting and feels very unnecessary

09/04/2016 09/04/2016

The Wander Society

I read The Wander Society this weekend by Keri Smith (who has a very interesting practice) and wondered if the society ever makes reference to the people who still live by ancient, nomadic principles… also wondered about the social factors excluding so many people from this freedom to roam - Trayvon Martin and far, far too many others

08/04/2016 08/04/2016

word collecting

today: caravan

21/03/2016 21/03/2016

amble

to ‘amble, stride or scurry’, I am choosing amble for now

08/02/2016 08/02/2016

windows

a couple of weeks ago I saw a full moon setting from my kitchen window and the sun rising from my living room window, I ran back and forth from room to room for about ten minutes in wondertoday it is all myriad greys and bluster but nevertheless still mind blowing

02/02/2016 02/02/2016

striding

glanced outside, saw a man striding by, denim head to toe, weather-worn black hat, leather sandals, no socks, optimistic, a few weeks later I spotted him again in B&Q, same outfit, same weather