Day fifty-seven of The 100 Day Project for 2021.
I thought I'd set myself a more simple subject today.
I sketched it with a 4H pencil, then went over the edge of the blue wall with a 4B pencil, the lampshade and the cornice with an HB pencil, and the wire and light fitting with a 6B pencil.
I've got something of a superstition going with these lampshades. Though I don't generally consider myself to be a superstitious person.
The first place I lived after I moved out of home was a flat owned by my parents. The previous tenants left one of these lampshades in what became my bedroom. I didn't really have much of an opinion on it at the time. I lived there for almost 5 years before moving to the UK.
I lived in four different places in under two and a half years living here that first time.
I lived in four different homes between the Gold Coast and Melbourne over the next two years.
When I finally moved into a place on my own in Brunswick East in 2004, there was one in my bedroom. I think my study had one also, but I can't recall for sure now. I lived there for four years and one month.
When I had to leave there, I managed another four abodes in less than two and a half years.
When I returned to London in 2011 and found a room in a shared flat, there it was. Hanging above my bed. I lived in that flat for almost three years before moving downstairs into my landlady's garden flat with Kyle.
Her flat didn't have one. We had to move out after less than nine months.
Our next flat didn't have one either. Our relationship ended, and we moved on again after about a year and a half.
When I moved in here, there was already a smaller colourful patterned version hanging in what could have been my bedroom.
But I took the lounge room for my bedroom, and there was a bare bulb suspended from the roof above my bed.
So I knew what I had to do to make this my home and not have to move on again before I was ready.
I took the source photo on 4 June 2016, lying in my bed, a little over a month after moving in.
At the end of April, I will have lived here for five years.