Keeping an eye on the world going by my window - I love this line. I wanted almost the whole of history to whirl past John’s window in a matter of seconds.
Remember to set a reminder for 4th March: Created in collaboration with @avant.arte, two limited edition prints: ‘Early in the Morning’ and ‘In the Middle of a Dream’ bring together stills from my collaboration with @thebeatles on I’m Only Sleeping. See link in bio for more details.
This feels like the continuous predicament. I can’t solve it. I can’t meet it. I can’t get out of it. Not sure if I’m the parent or the child.
Unmet, oil on board, 122.5cm x 75cm
#parenting #art #oilpainting #contemporaryart #motherhood
The Beatles commitment to peace is so present in I’m Only Sleeping — I painted this in summer 2022 with the bombs turning into birds in yellow and blue for #ukraine
Love to you @dasha_tenditna.
@sean_ono_lennon @johnlennon @thebeatles
@avant.arte and link in bio for more info about a new limited edition pair of prints from my oil-paints for I’m Only Sleeping titled ‘Early in the Morning’ and ‘In the Middle of a Dream’, launching 4 March at 2pm UK time. Archival pigment print. Signed, numbered, and with a stamp of authenticity from The Beatles. Worldwide shipping.
The edition is a timed edition - set a reminder for the launch.
@em.cooper.studio talks to documentary photographer @dasha_tenditna about painting the Grammy winning video for @thebeatles I’m Only Sleeping as her debut print collaboration with @avant.arte is announced.
Prints launch 4th March at 2pm UK time.
Link in bio to learn more and set a reminder for the launch.
Super excited to share this!
photography and video @dasha_tenditna
music @jim_perkins_
thanks to @vs.marcosbotelho
@sean_ono_lennon @johnlennon
Sleep, now the most precious commodity — traded like a private currency in the family.
Day night day, 2025, oil paint on board 116cm x 80cm
#parenting #art #oilpainting #contemporaryart #motherhood
Expanse of mental blank overlapping with the material function of the body performing the childcare.
Non-thought, oil on paper, 42 x 59cm
#parenting #art #oilpainting #contemporaryart #motherhood
I never really intended to produce paintings but after having a baby I found motherhood so overwhelming that creating moving-image works (8 paintings per second) was just too time-consuming. Beyond commissioned work, I didn’t manage to make anything at all.
So, as a sort of short-hand, I started painting only single frames, or tiny unfinished clips. The still paintings were initially intended as sketches for moving-image work, but then they began to have a sort of language of their own.
In the scraps of time between feeding, soothing meltdowns, working and everything else I have been attempting to grasp the intensity of certain moments, but this time mainly in paintings. Now finally feeling ready to share these in upcoming posts.
This one, I’ve been referring to as new mother but not sure of a title yet. 30cm x 42cm, oil on paper.
#parenting #art #oilpainting #contemporaryart #motherhood
Shown at the @freudmuseum in 2013, Confusion of Tongues (2010) began with the first major discovery for me in exploring the medium of painted film: the paint seemed to be able to tolerate complex internal subject matter in a way that live-action alone could not. It is a very dark and uncomfortable film inspired by Sándor Ferenczi’s 1933 seminal essay of the same name discussing identification with the aggressor.
It is not a film that sits well online. In fact when people request screening copies I ask them to try to discuss its contents beforehand and try to screen it in as close to a cinema situation as possible.
The cinema is my fine-art space of choice. The medium of the cinema with its dark comfortable seating, surround sound and long attention span allows for something important, which is missed in online viewing or installation projections.
While I was at the RCA I wrote my dissertation on this topic: ‘Film as a Good-Enough Mother?’ More on that in future posts as I have recently picked up this theme again in my current work.
Confusion of Tongues, like The Nest, needs the holding environment of the maternal cinema or a thoughtful framework, and I was lucky enough to find this in screenings organised by psychoanalyst Kannan Navaratnem and #AndreaSabbadini, as well as the International Ferenczi Conference @isfn_ferenczinetwork in Budapest, the Art and Psyche Conference in New York and The Freud Museum London. Discussions of the film have become part of the psychotherapy teaching at the Tavistock @taviandport
