In The Beginning

I have always written, doodled and scrawled on scraps of paper. Bundled together they were carted around from my first bedsit to an endless procession of flats. For now they have settled with me in my converted factory in East London. Dreams listed, noted, lined up ready to be ticked off. Unfinished lyrics written with a heavy or a happy heart. Designs for shoes and shacks, sketches of people and passing clouds. I have played house and make-believe in every place I have ever lived - collected, arranged, displayed, reinvented, celebrated and shared.

I am a magpie, a reveller, an explorer, a collaborator, a renegade and a truth-seeker.

My life rolls out like a prodigious patchwork blanket. Some of the pieces are beautifully collaborative, others represent secret deep-seated desires, some are unfinished and perhaps always will be, others are symbolic of my mistakes and troubled moments. But each and every one is mine and they all anchor me.

I have an endless list of projects - the things most people call dreams.

Welcome to my world.

Ashlyn Gibson

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In the beginning