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The calm regulars, the expletive shouters, the yodelling divers, the take-a-breath and launch off the ladders, down two rungs and glide. The perfected techniques. The motivators ‘Come on, you can do it. It’s fine once you’re in.&rsq
The scraps, the swatches, the trials and errors, the ‘what if I…?’, the bits that didn’t make the cut but helped to get there, the ones that will likely end up buried in a drawer… as important as the finished pieces.
Oil black. It slips under the dark surface, gone without announcement. Re-emerging at unexpected distance, fish in beak, periscope neck surveying potential lunch thieves. #thepondlauramckendry #cormorant #wildswimming #urbannature #birds #illustr
‘I’m sorry, was that your bucket?’ ’I even went back to work part-time and my husband’s parents were angry as they thought I should’ve been staying at home to raise their grandson. And my husband didn’t even
Rolling down a wet costume, feet in a washing up bowl Emulsion paint, oil stick and pencil on paper 297 x 420mm #thepondlauramckendry
Peel off neoprene skin, rolling down grip to inside-out blubber. One off, then two. Bare feet slide easily into tub, soles revived by warm containment whilst three layers of clothes inelegantly slip back on over head. Towel between spread toes lifte
Changing under a towel Emulsion paint and oil stick on cardboard 250mm x 376mm #thepond

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