Present Time - Greeting Card - Folded Card

A blank, folded greeting card of my original gouache painting ‘Present Time’. 12.7cm x 12.7cm.

'Does housekeeping interest you at all?' Virginia Woolf wrote to a friend. 'I think it really ought to be just as good as writing'. She could not see 'where the separation between the two comes in.' In her diaries, literary entries entwine with notes like a list of 'Linen left to be washed'. 'Made chair cover'. 'Eating our own broad beans – delicious'. In Mrs Dalloway, one of the most experimental novels of the time, a woman walks through London on an errand, planning a party, building a mundane, practical to-do list in her head. Home-making and writing, in Woolf's view, both offered the ability to try out new ways of being.

I love the idea of reframing chores as something meditative, even beautiful. The fields outside, and the child a reminder of life beyond quotidian routine. Perhaps one to hang by the washing machine to make doing the laundry more poetic?

Comes with a brown Kraft envelope and a protective biodegradable plastic sleeve.

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