La briciola squisita

« To this day - a list of products in Hebrew for purchase that has been forgotten and not realized. The list says missing: Matbucha, sunflower sprouts, lemon peppermint diet, sprite, dishwasher tablets, pitas, diabetes diet, bread, popcorn, soy cheese, paper towel, bottle like orange juice, iodine, 9 percent yellow cheese, mozzarella flakes, loaf, juice Oranges, paper towel, snow sushi for stainless steel, jam, soy milk, chocolate, diabetes, pastrami, tahini. Write but deleted and there are already: dill, yellow cheese, carrots, mozzarella and potatoes. I'll never buy it.» . . Shahar Tuchner (www.shahartuchner.com, @shahartuchner), I will never buy this again, 2021, erasable and non-erasable markers on a print of melamine, 30 x 22 cm

« I'm in the Doctors waiting room - and ideas grow and push aside pre appointment tension. Using 'Poems in the Waiting Room' as my sketchbook I jot down ideas, keeping an ear open and an eye on the buzzer board. Later I roughly colour the scribbles so as to have a vague idea what I was mentally juggling with. Some waiting room ideas are simply repeats, dragged out at times of stress - others seem new, and they can take wing. » . . John Thomson ( www.thomsonart.co.uk, @johnthomsonart), Poems in the Waiting Room, ink and pencil on paper, 20 x 20 cm

« This artwork was made during the first lockdown in Spring 2020. Nothing was making any sense, fear everywhere, the media worldwide was in panic, the world was shut down, we were upside down and lost as one humanity. And the words I wrote were about the need for a deep soul searching on all our parts - yet to come, over a year later! » . . Ramona Galardi (www.ramonagalardi.com, @ramona_galardi) ,  The Answers Lie Within, 2020, fine line marker on folded and stitched paper, 10 x 70 x 2 cm approx . . Front: THE ANSWERS LIE WITHIN . . SO DEEP WITHIN

Ursula Vargas (www.ursulavargas.com and @ursulavargas_art),  Passion roulette, 2020, ink pen on paper, 24 x 24 cm . . Front: PASSION ROULETTE . . HELP . . HUMAN condition . . childhood killers . . it's a perverts world

« Pen & paper fragment from a mathematician's study.   Looks meaningless but maybe you can decipher it. » . . Mike Clements ( www.mikeclementsartist.com and @ mikeclementsartist) , Pie,  2021, pen on paper,  c6.5 x c10.0 cm

« Made as a direct response to the call out the piece is a collage with a handwritten post-it note attached. The title,"Ladies in Waiting," is a riff upon how often ladies wait patiently for a phone call after meeting a new man. It's an urgent request! » . . Susan Plover ( www.susanplover.com) , Ladies in Waiting, 2021, collage, 21 x 29.7 cm . . Front (handwritten): Call me, please!

« '見ぬが花' (“Ignorance is bliss”) is a project consisting of 47 embroidered Polaroids which represent the 47 prefectures of Japan. The sceneries depict typical Japanese streets in residential areas. The wires are embroidered with a yellow thread, creating a spiderweb of electricity. The timeless appearance of electric pylons contrast with a world constantly overwhelmed by significant changes in term of urbanisation, technology and architecture. The embroidered wires represent the different path that is given to us and the connection that we choose - or ignore. The Polaroids have two sides: the daylight side shows the linear, unavoidable, inflexible, circle of life (birth, life, death) while the dark side depicts how unpredictable and uncertain life is. The darkest side also creates an imaginary map of constellations, an unlimited sky with endless possibilities. » . . Aurelie Crisetig (@aureliecrisetig and www.acrisetig.com),  見ぬが花 (“Ignorance is bliss”), 2020, embroidered Polaro...

  « "The Norm" was born whilst walking back from the shop carrying my shopping. My weekly local shop and the walk home provide me with good food, social life, culture and exercise. I know this might not be normal. Normal modern life might denote a quick dash to a shop after a long day at work, then off to the gym and maybe a drive to somewhere remote. There were so many societal concepts to unpick just within that one set of differences but how to express that? Cartoon strips have not been my natural art form but it seemed like the most efficient way to tell this story and encourage thought on various norms. My art work often takes fairly contentious or difficult issues and veils them in less daunting forms. Through this people will approach and are embroiled in the discursive and conceptual elements of a piece before they realise its tricky subject. Then I find conversation of a deep nature often occurs with less blocks and insecurities...