My personal contribution to: Athenaeum - The Library Reimagined, is a publication entitled: Apotheosis, which means ‘a perfect example’, and is a methodology for thought-optimisation via the ‘shared space of the word’, serving as an infrastructure to challenge binary-thinking.

The aim of Apotheosis is to reaffirm Nature as the real economy, where the currency of Life is sacred. This can be achieved by extending empathy and compassion to encompass the rights of women, children and the natural-world.

I believe that a deeper respect for all life can be forged simply and effortlessly by aligning with one’s inner-sovereignty, and all that is needed to effect beneficent change in the world is a minor shift in the human psyche.

Potentially, the pandemic can serve as a portal between two worlds and what we must now ask ourselves is: how are we going to walk through it? Are we really dying, or is this an opportunity to be reborn? What ‘Apotheosis’ can offer is a way through the portal, towards a new paradigm that is totally supportive.

Athenaeum - The Library Reimagined, represents an outer-voice and each entry in Apotheosis represents an inner-voice. The inner-voice symbolises connecting with inner-tacit wisdom and hidden-knowledge through the self-archival process of documenting both fictional and non-fictional memories, thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Through the act of sharing and disseminating, the internal then becomes the external. Apotheosis is an epistolary novel formed of diary entries in poem format symbolising a ‘library of the self’, which when presented as part of this group project, becomes a ‘library within a library’.

Available from Amazon.co.uk: https://tinyurl.com/1jl59mes