Vibes Digest
Art and design writer from London, on a quest to map out a personal canon.
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A crash course in light and colour, courtesy of the Impressionists (opens the original)
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This post is intended as the first in a series—I decided to dig into the relationship between colour and light after we viewed yet another house decorated entirely in grey and white, whose gloomy atmosphere left me teetering on the edge of despair.Ultimately, I want to explore whether any of this can show me something about colour and light at home that I haven’t already heard. I’m aware there’s no need to analyse the Impressionists’ palette to paint a house, I just like to know. Wish me luck!Wh
The moment you become an adult (opens the original)
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It was my birthday yesterday, thirty-four to be exact, and for the first time in my life I felt like an adult. How does it feel to be an adult, you ask?<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1053" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d-O2!,w_1456,c_limit
The art history of the deep sea (opens the original)
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Last Saturday, me and my boyfriend drove to Surrey to take part in a diving course we need to complete before our trip to Southeast Asia in December. I’m a good swimmer and have always enjoyed being enveloped by a mass of water, feeling blissfully detached from whatever happens on the surface.<div class="image2-i
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