Chase the moment- tracking David Wynne's works around London

 I have made a magical discovery one late night-early morning while sitting on a bus, I believe, from Luton airport. Within the dark space of a reality outside the  window, I spotted a mysterious creature seemingly blue, captured in a move like a totem of a timeless run, not meant to be completed by no one. It was a blue presence of The Boy with The Dolphin, glittering at dawn in the deepness of the-same-ness. This experience, rapid and elusive, has transformed my feel about the city. Not only this city, but any city, anywhere in the world where unexplainable, unreasonable can be discovered and embraced, and become your company in the silence or your partner in crime. I desperately tried to remember any remarkable sign having allowed me to find this spot afterwards. But it took me some time to find him, my Boy with a Dolphin, and it was meant to be this way. 

 David Wynne is being called 'the sculptor of the movement' and it is indeed the most accurate name. Streets of London remain the best possible tribute to his work, by enchanting the passengers with his monuments of the captured stories. That's why everything I wanted for my Name Day was a trip discovering these masterpieces around the city. And there are such people in our lives who are always here to make our dreams come true. 

  To disappoint my evanescent memory at dawn, Boy with a Dolphin was not really blue. To reach him, one needs to cross a magical and nostalgic Albert Bridge, which is worth visiting too. Only passing this place, one of those where always seems to be early Autumn, one is allowed to visit Boy with a Dolphin himself. It is hard to find the words to describe this feeling while looking into his eyes. The monument is perfect in his majesty. It is complete.

 The statue has been dedicated to the artist's son, who also modeled for it at the age of ten. Nowadays the sculpture seems to be forgotten, deserted in the middle of Chelsea and distracted by the huge Mercedes Benz sign. Almost like for the model, who died tragically at young age, the famous boy's final is tragic and heartbreaking. 

The Magical Reality Under Construction. World according to Ilya Utkin and Alexander Brodsky.

 Someone once said there are only two kinds of people: those who want different reality and those who create it. In that theory I am in between Jacques Derrida and his great deconstruction and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy which says that everything we see depends on what's in our  heads.

 This issue can be easily explained: Derrida has been my master since my second grade at the University (so it's been a while) and gave me enough theory to understand what I want to do and how my reality should look like, while CBT crossed my path in the perfect moment giving me the answer to the second important question: how to do that. 

 Yes, you're correct- the only way to create your own magical reality is to deconstruct the one you have. And the only instrument to achieve it is your own head. That's why making yourself a CBT session right now is an amazing thing to do even if you're brain is completely healthy. Because the way you perceive your reality is in your head. 

 Now you are about to tell me it's a cliche. And in many ways, you'd be right. So for not being accused of being a full time cliche gambler I am going to explain the issue deeper by using examples of created realities based on what you have. So if you want your reality to be different, let me give you some examples of magical realities to start with or even copy some of them into your head. Some of them are completely imaginary and are there to help us create our own in our heads. This sort of creation will not cause your detachment with the world, quite the opposite, it should connect you with it. But your perception of it will be much better and will attract more positive things into your life. At least that's what Frank told me. 

 To create your own magical reality, start with space. The space around you, the place you live in and the surroundings. Then add to it all the things you get from it: images, sounds and smells. What do you want them to remind you of? How do you want it to make you feel like?

 After that introduction I want to talk about the first example of a magical reality to explain why and how does it focus on space. An absolutely genius project I came across accidentally at Tate Modern, by Ilya Utkin and Alexander Brodsky, two amazing architects placing buildings in our imagination.