Original artwork description:

Another tribute to the secretly wonderful touches of Lyon. We have a tendency to look down, at the floor or our phones (and by 'we' I probably mean 'me') to shuffle and skitter from appointment to appointment, making it from door to door in the quickest time possible is the goal. If I have to think about the 'trajet' boredom and anxiety seep in to the cracks in my carapace, please distract me.

This piece is my attempt to do the opposite of that, by looking up constantly, searching for morsels of beauty and intrigue that fill the world. It's a behaviour that rarely goes unrewarded. The gorgeous serpent door knocker would have gone without my notice, as would have the delicately blooming flower.

So here's to looking up, lowering our guard and little and profiting from the scraps of magic that make life really worth it. Beat that meta-verse!

Painting and drawn on a page of 'The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady'- A very special recording of the natural world, by someone who knew how to look.

Materials used:

Recycled book page, acrylic paint, ink, pencil.

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