The Quiet Enchanting, what stories can we tell to re-enchant our world?

Sometimes, just sometimes magic happens.

By absolute chance I came across this free exhibition on the walkway in an area thats been pedestrianised, by Kings College London and Somerset House.
It really spoke to me because it is quite literally what I've been thinking about for some time now, and I love stories, fantasy and fiction too, the idea of creating other worlds and other realms, it's magical.
The Quiet Enchanting.
And it was.

Quietly there on the wall, almost, out-of-the-way, not shouting out, not in the bustle of walkways or near the road; you might miss it if you didn't look up.

Enchanting with the images, the stark questions on the walls with imagery to suit something from dreams.

I just submitted a story to Hodder & Stoughton yesterday, fantasy fiction about the world we live in and people's intentions based on my observations when I worked at the UK Department for International Development, now defunct, and got rid of by the current UK government.

Stories, resonante with all people, they can appeal to our inner thoughts and have for always been the way we share knowledge, warnings, and joy with the next generation.
Including the disturbing stories of war and violations that are happening in the world today, and also in London.

It encourages a childlike sense of wonder- a friend of mine Tricia Barker says this often from her NDE

Presented by Superflux and Kings College London they say this:

"The Quiet Enchanting is an invitation into a mythic time, where we might find hope and agency in the face of ecological disaster and reimagine our relationship with ourselves, with each other and the earth"

The images are there to "invite you to consider not the concrete plausibility of this future, but the internal shift that might make such ways of living possible"

What indeed, time to just be?

 

The arts will play a key role, it declares, in helping society imagine what is possible and inspire the change we can create"

This is one I can definately get behind!

I post the short exhibit here, but if you can get down to see it yourself, on the pedestrian area opposite the Somerset House. I dont know how long it's there for, but the images and the words are enough to capture your own Quiet enchantment. I loved it, a hopeful nudge, that if we can change inside, and rewilding can take root.

Such hopeful exhibit of trusting ourselves inside ourselves.

Although promises of a better future were elusive, an inner wilding took root