'Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down.
"This is the way" he said
"but there are no stairs."
"You must throw yourself in. There is no other way."
She turned and looked at him full in the face - stood so far a whole minute, as she thought (it was a whole year), then threw herself headlong into the hole'

 (Extract from the Short Story 'The Golden Key' by George MacDonald)










Portrait of George MacDonald lecturing drawn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) on the back of an admission ticket to one of George's lecture series.

I really enjoyed this Documentary on 'Outsider Art', and the process of Creativity. There are some very special outpourings and insights in there. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03js57h/imagine..._Winter_2013_Turning_the_Art_World_Inside_Out/

Image by Martin Ramirez (1960-63)