Sarnia de la Maré FRSA Author, Musician, Artist

  Welcome to the History of True Love Romance at Mills and Swoon. Tonight’s story takes us to the salons and drawing rooms of early twentieth-century London, where literature, art, and scandal often mingled freely among the cleverest minds of the age. It was here, in the unconventional world of the Bloomsbury Group, that one of the most intriguing love affairs in literary history unfolded between two remarkable women: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Virginia Woolf was already establishing herself as one of the most innovative writers of her generation. Brilliant, thoughtful, and deeply introspective, she was fascinated by the workings of the mind and the subtle movements of emotion. Her novels challenged the rigid storytelling traditions of the Victorian era and replaced them with something more fluid, more psychological, and more daring. Vita Sackville-West was different in almost every way. Tall, glamorous, and aristocratic, she moved through society with a confidence tha...

  Vanity and Ageing: Why Some People Fight Time and Others Make Peace With It Welcome to Elderescence Academy — reflections on growing older with curiosity, creativity, and calm. Ageing is one of the few experiences that every human being shares, yet the ways people respond to it vary enormously. Some individuals meet the passing of time with determination. They exercise discipline over their appearance, invest in skincare, hair treatments, aesthetic procedures, and sometimes surgery. They aim to preserve a version of themselves that feels familiar — a face, a body, an image that reflects the vitality they still feel within. Others take a very different path. They allow the changes of time to appear openly. Hair turns grey, skin softens, lines deepen, and the body shifts its shape and rhythm. They may care for themselves well, but they do not attempt to resist the visible signs of age. These two responses are often presented as opposites — as if one represents vanity and the other ...

Archive Glossary Strata 1 Renyke Wakes in the Alley (Purpose) Strata 2 The Maybe Line (Friendship) Strata 3 Flex and the Robo-Dog (Making Decisions) Strata 4 The Zoners (Meeting Strangers) Strata 5 The Tiger Queen (Memories) Strata 6 Trouble at the Bank (Animal Instincts) Strata 7 Jarome and the Scritters (Trade and Barter) Strata 8 Shabra (Laws of Attraction) Strata 9 Lust and Loins (Limerence) Strata 10 Dinfant Trouble (Synthetic Love) Strata 11 The Crossroads (Gut Feelings) Strata 12 The Basement People (Emotions) Strata 13 The Fight (Hormones) Strata 14 The Journey to the Edge (Fear of Death) Strata 15 The Ship of Sirens (Superstition) Strata 16 Friendship (Empathy) Strata 17 Swimming (Pleasure and Pain) Strata 18 Freaky Celebrations (Stimulation) Strata 19 Peer Pressure (Existentialism) Strata 20 The Perimeter (Ego) Strata 21 Love and Loss (The Power of Kin) Strata 22 Mother (No Child Left Behind) Strata 23 ...

 From the Elderescence Podcast Beauty After Perfection: Decay, Dignity, and the Digital Gaze Digital culture has trained us to worship the unmarked surface. Smooth skin. Even light. Correct proportions. Endless optimisation. For years, technology promised refinement — better resolution, sharper focus, cleaner edits. The logic was simple: beauty was something to be perfected, preserved, and defended against time. And yet, something curious is happening. As artificial intelligence becomes more capable of rendering faces, bodies, and futures, it has also begun to reveal something we were never meant to see so clearly: what happens after perfection fails . Ageing is no longer hidden behind soft focus. Decay is no longer off-screen. Digital tools now generate wrinkles, sag, opacity, greying — not as metaphor, but as data. And instead of feeling grotesque, it often feels… honest. There is dignity in this honesty. For a long time, decay was treated as an error. A flaw in the sy...

 From the Elderescence Podcast AI, Time Compression, and the Return of Death to Consciousness I didn’t expect artificial intelligence to make me think about death. At least, not like this. I expected spectacle — novelty, cleverness, perhaps even menace. What I didn’t expect was the way AI would make time itself visible , and in doing so, quietly remove one of modern life’s most effective illusions: that death is distant, abstract, and safely postponed. AI has a peculiar ability to compress time. To accelerate it. To render decades as seconds. Faces age. Bodies change. Futures appear without narrative, without explanation, without sentiment. There is no story arc. No tragedy. No triumph. Just time, applied. And that is what makes it so confronting. We have lived for a long time inside a culture that disguises ageing. Youth is endlessly extended, death politely hidden, decline edited out of the frame. Even old photographs allow us a degree of emotional distance — they are ot...

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        “A tactile sigil artefact from the Book of Immersion universe.” “Part of a shared symbolic language embedded across found objects.” “Material memory, not reproduction.” “Designed to age, not to remain pristine.” “Best displayed with space — box framing recommended.” Dinfant Sigil (Blink Friction / BOI) This work features the Dinfant Sigil , a symbolic mark drawn from the narrative universe of The Book of Immersion . Within the BOI cosmology, Dinfants are discarded child-like machines — orphaned intelligences who form their own societies, rituals, and mythologies from remnants of lost systems. The sigil functions as both identity and signal : a quiet declaration of presence, survival, and shared memory. The sigils used throughout The Book of Immersion are not illustrative logos but fragments of a working symbolic language . They appear repeatedly across time and strata — scratched into surfaces, daubed onto walls, embedded in detritus — acting a...