We humans would rather have something a bit flawed but true than gloss-plastic perfection. On the surface, that doesn’t seem to be so—with ‘reality’ TV shows illustrating a life that’s nothing like reality and Instagram influencers filtered into poreless automatonica—but there is an undercurrent backlash to this that I see all around us. Our collective psyche is seeking to balance itself: enter Victoriana.
Continue reading 21st-Century Victoriana: Our love letter to the dark
Audio download link: Thoughts on Mourning
For this walk, enter Abney Park Cemetery from the wrought-iron gates entrance on Stoke Newington Church Street.
This audio walk is a meditation on modern versus Victorian mourning practices. Interweaving quotes from then and now, with stories, the walk is set to the music of The Black Heart Procession, with exit music ‘Dance While the Sky Crashes Down’, by Jason Webley.
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Blackthorn & Stone 