Bookfest - Kim Noble

[changeling67]

Some women buy shoes and scent or clothes and holidays - I have forked out for even MORE books (I have just had a Dickens spending spree). I have bought a biography on C.S Lewis by the same publisher that did the Roald Dahl one that I liked.  I have got the story of Kim Noble, the artist who has a split personality and these personalities produce very different, very individual pieces of work. I came across this story whilst doing the Psychology modules at Access last academic year. Will write up about the book when it has been read (add to the other 10 or so 'must read' titles in my bookshelf).

Below is an interview with Kim and also a link to her website.  Terribly sad, many awful things happened to her, in many regards but also an amazing story of how art overcomes the mind.

http://www.kimnoble.com/

Plus, I have been able to bag a snazzy academic diary and a batch of henna from LUSH. Feel pampered :-D

Comments

[egg-shell.livejournal.com]

Sounds fascinating - I just ordered the book - looking forward to reading it.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Some of it maybe be a bit harrowing, however the story and her artwork are interesting :-)

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the video clip. Powerful harrowing and yet positive in the end.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I read an interview she did in the Independent one year and took a look at her Flickr page. It is interesting how the mind divides and departmentalises itself. The art work from each personality is very different to the others. I find I have to skip past some of the stuff because I find it too distressing, even if it is integral to why she has the problem.

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Isn't that almost too much? Its sometimes hard enough to live with all the people we are inside ourselves, but to have multiple 'ourselves' occupying us. And to the exclusion of any other 'us'. Good lord.

Like you, I'm a bookaholic! I've run out of shelves AGAIN!!! just put one up for forty books i've bought, and now... there's the coffee table with two foot high piles! HELLLLLP!!! but come the winter months... AAAAhhhh I shall turn on the cds and read. I just hope my new specs will help my eyes hold out.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I think the poor lady must feel like a conduit, or a stangely-planned Grand Central Station half the time. I must admit to slamming the brakes on re book spending. I haven't an awful lot of cash and we are waiting for a client to pay an outstanding bill.

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

It's bad enough when one's story-characters start taking over one's head and fingers, but to have them ALIVE! lordy me. And her poor family, helpers...whoever... gosh.

I'm only buying the Penny ones. Amazon has loads of NEW at awful prices but I always go for the second-hand and I have over forty books that all cost me forty Pennies. Not even ten shillings English, but the postage does add up. I can't get English books here, and there is NO way I'm going through Voltaire or Victor Hugo in the original though I do worry about some of the nuances may be lost in translations. I've Proust here, thank GOD translated!!!! all THAT in French, my dictionary is already falling apart!

I like having already read books too, if they're paperbacks cos the spines have been flexed for me. I hate injuring the spines of any book, a cheapy paperback even. And sometimes there are lovely little names or mutterings... super fun.

Hope the dosh turns up!!! Charge them interest like they do here, you have two months to pay, after that ten percent gets added on the next demand, until BOOOM the Order Comes From The Court!

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

My best penny book from Amazon was 'Bird Inside' by Wendy Perriam. For some reason, I really liked it - mainly because it was about the relationship between a stained glass artisan and his muse. I used to do bits of stained glass as a hobby, I really miss it but I haven't got the room here.

Alas the client is a friend and we are waiting on the sale of his building, which keeps stalling and it is annoying to us all :-/