About Me
- Helen Gallogly
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- I am a Textile Designer/Maker based in Edinburgh, I specialise in printed and stitched textiles which I studied at Duncan of Jordanstone Art School, Dundee. Why the hell Dundee you ask? It was a long way to go from my home town of Luton, but its a long story which I won't bore you with. I grew up in and around an 'antique but mostly second hand' furniture shop and was raised as a (not so devout) Catholic. My sir name in case you're wondering, is Irish. My dad comes from county Leitrim in Ireland, where you will find many more Gallogly's, though luckily we're still a rare breed.
4 comments:
this guy was awesome. kinda like a nasty dali, although HB was obviously there before the spaniard.
i wonder what he would paint today seeing as no-one really gives a shit about heaven and hell anymore.
cool blog by the way, it makes good reading!!
well I wouldn't say nobody cares. maybe more people than you think?
of course. i know that comment won't please everyone.
but mr bosch was around in a time where religion was logic, it was the law and it was undisputed. that is not the world we live in now in western europe.....and them dutch are pretty funky and liberal now ja?
when i was younger i thought about heaven and hell and was scared of 'going to hell' if i did bad things but i'm all about the logic now.
i'm sure it will creep back into my conscience when i'm on the verge of kicking the bucket though.
Hey, I meant to write back to this ages ago. Had a good old chuckle to myself reading these comments '2343277789' who ever you are! very funny. That first one makes me laugh everytime. You're quite right all round, I'm totally with you.
I too was sucked into the bullshit world of heaven and hell when I was little, went to a catholic school run by nuns and priests, it was an utter joke. I'm proud to say though that I started scrutinising this set up even back then. While I didn't know what I really believed, I knew the religion I was taught to practice was a total farce. I'm glad to say I never even went to confession! was way too busy day dreaming and causing mischief.
As for the middle comment. I'm glad you're there to provoke more amusing and challenging comments.
I can understand, having experienced many loses among my family and friends, the need to believe this isn't just it. But start analysing where the line is between a 'good' person who's gong to heaven and a 'bad' person going to hell. Theres no line, its impossible to draw one. We want to believe that mass murderers and the like will burn in the hell, and we 'good people' will bask in heaven. But start trying to seperate humanity into these two catagories and you realise we all just fall inbetween. Theres good and evil in all of us, so there cannot be a definite place for any of us either.
To believe our energy doesn't just end and that a part of what we are can still exist after death, is one thing. But seriously, ever lasting life, eternal paradise/damnation, getting poked up the arse with pitch forks! enough. I know there are plenty of nutters that care for this belief, but i don't care for them and am not writing for them. When the other guy said 'no-one really cares' he's referring to the open minded, logical majority of us.
While John Milton was totally away with the fairies, he was right about one thing... Paradise is indeed lost, more to the point, it was never there in the first place.
Rant over
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