Hi all – I'm currently working on my final major project for my MA in illustration and need some help coming up with some slightly specific locations in and around London.
The book is a collection of guided meditation / reflective thought activities that take you to different spots around London, with illustrations that you can remove once you've been to that location. For example, St Dunstan in the East is the first spot and talks about the history of a church that was built, destroyed, rebuilt, destroyed and then repurposed into something different – and the reflective thought activity encourages the reader to visit the place, soak it in and then apply the story of this location to their own lives with a little written section on the back side of the illustration.
Another example could be Sir John Soane's house for an activity about listing different physical objects / artifacts from your life and the memories associated with them.
Ideally the location has a good spot for you to sit and complete the chapter and conjures up some form of introspection.
TL:DR What are your favourite spots around London for reflective thought? What do these places make you think about?
by criscobeefslaps
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Postman’s Park.
The Hardy Tree https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64110086
Neal’s Yard, though perhaps as it used to be rather than current version.
I mean any of the magnificent 7 cemeteries! Think about life and death and art and beauty (many of those crypts are pure craftsmanship).
Funny, I use St Dunstans in my book too but it’s a complete different genre so that ok 🙂
Tower Hill garden. It’s amazing how quiet this place is in amongst all the tourists and with great views of Tower of London and the memorial to sailors. It always puts me in a reflective mood.
Bunhill Fields burial ground
>TL:DR What are your favourite spots around London for reflective thought? What do these places make you think about?
It would be much better if you came up with your own spots in London rather repeating Random Internet People’s ideas.
Liverpool Street Station Mc Donalds at 20:45 on a Saturday
Ooo Brompton Cemetery
Hill Garden and Pergola in Hampstead Heath.
Crossbones Graveyard on Union Street in Borough – [https://crossbones.org.uk/](https://crossbones.org.uk/) – although it is only open at certain times.
One tree hill, Honor Oak
Nunhead cemetery is lovely