making sense of my world
by artist Helen Shaddock

ED#2 James Joyce, Passage from Clay

artEDition Curated art, stories and writing James Joyce, extract from Clay She put on her spectacles and looked at the clock. It was ten minutes to nine. She opened the cupboard and took out a piece of bread and butter and sat down to eat it slowly. As she ate, she thought of the things […]

ED#2 In-between creatures: Anorexia is not a middle-class disease

artEDition Curated art, stories and writing In-between creatures: Anorexia is not a middle-class disease ‘Like the mind, the body / ingests memory…/ I devour everything. Empty vessel’ – Cynthia Cruz, ‘Fragment’ in Hotel Oblivion (2022) Diary (March – June 2012)Jasmine Jade2025 A response to Cynthia Cruz’s personal essay, which can be found here: https://criticalflame.org/the-space-between-a-personal-essay-of-anorexia/ American poet and essayist […]

ED#2 Haiku – Death is not the end

artEDition Curated art, stories and writing Haiku – Death is not the end Helen Shaddock2025@helenshaddockwww.helenshaddock.co.uk New addition: Haiku are going to be added to artED.online soon!