Month: February 2024

Memøry Høuse / Event Invite

“Memory HouseA’ book and art exhibition at the Lansdown Art Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire.

21 – 26 February 2024 open every day 9am – 5pm / Extended open day Wednesday 21st February 9am – 8pm.

We often think about time as being a social concept, anchored in a palpable present, routing between the past and the future but nevertheless a construct that makes sense once we engage, in perpetuity, with our human experiences. In fact, what is infinite and constantly subject to our imagination and our creative processes is the past; the memories stored, processed and shared, that integrate and ground our being.

Memory House is an art collaboration searching to explore the collective aspect of memory that leads to social integration and reveals human commonalities beyond ethnicity, background or political colour. Memory House is a place where different generations and cultures reveal the archetypal aspects of our humanity.

Memory House: book detail/concept and design ©Andrew Morrison. Poetry © Maria Stadnicka

Publisher: Kerbstone Press

© Maria Stadnicka, February 2024

Doxology

© Maria Stadnicka, 2024


prayer for rechargeable batteries

and fastness and coffee mornings

for raffle tickets and crisp stereo sound

for power banks and batch cooking 



prayer for beer-tapas at my local pub 

and for average speed limits 

for goodenoughness at school reunions 

and metastatic anonymity online



prayer for microphones and bespoke

for three-in-one and all other numerals 

for Karen from Home Deliveries

and her quick recovery from sick leave



prayer for perhaps and passwords 

for stopping mid-sentence and for 

everything else that is temporary 

apart from betrayal 



prayer for scissors and for the frontal cortex

and for a long-distance relationship

with my past life

© Maria Stadnicka, February 2024