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Welcome aboard The Life Boat
Writing from a windswept island about art, creativity, books and other buoyancy aids for turbulent times.
Dec 13, 2023 • Samantha Clark
The Clearing
What you find in the spaces between...
Aug 28, 2023 • Samantha Clark
A full moon, a sunset, a city like an ocean, a sea of stars
Tokyo, you are beautiful
Dec 10 • Samantha Clark
The bath of a thousand bathers
fortunately not all at the same time
Dec 3 • Samantha Clark
Put down the phone, pick up a pen
and just draw
Nov 26 • Samantha Clark
Rivers without end
a confluence that gathers momentum
Nov 19 • Samantha Clark
Gathering raindrops, gathering thoughts
and gratitude for the life of my very first teacher
Nov 12 • Samantha Clark
Autumn in Japan
If you go down to the woods today...
Nov 5 • Samantha Clark
In Praise of Drawing
from Dark Mountain: Issue 28
Published on The Dark Mountain Project • Oct 29
The weather inside
mizzle and fog, sunshine later
Oct 22 • Samantha Clark
To the Sea, From the Land
and coming to land through a sea of clouds
Oct 15 • Samantha Clark
An invisible sun
The light behind and in things
Oct 8 • Samantha Clark
Art in an Emergency
Artist Jenny Pope talks about finding resilience and buoyancy through making
Oct 1 • Samantha Clark
The last of Summer's blues
The last of Summer's blues at the Equinox
Sep 24 • Samantha Clark
The Life Boat
The Life Boat
Weekly letters from a windswept island in the North Atlantic. Nature, art and books that help us stay buoyant. Keep creativity afloat with subscriber co-working. Climb aboard.
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