This Thing of Darkness by Lisa Dart

This Thing of Darkness is a constantly floating narrative, blending dream, nightmare, memoir, theoretical enquiry (philosophical and psychoanalytical) in the form of a scrapbook. Wittgenstein’s On Certainty provides, paradoxically, an anchor throughout the book. ‘Paradoxically,’ because his work profoundly questions any beliefs, assumptions, ideas or concepts of certainty.

This Thing of Darkness, which gained an Arts Council Award, is where image and text create overlapping metaphors; where colours symbolise layers of the conscious and unconscious mind in an almost playful attempt to understand the long-lasting and devastating impact of trauma.