Last Picture of You 2023 

Last Picture of You is about last wishes communicated through words, artworks, video,  workshops and installation art. 

An intention for this project, was to encourage  conversations about an important fact of life, death. Both practical and reflective. How might we want to  our funerals to go? How might we want our lives to be  reflected on and lived… 

2023 is the continuation of a journey that began 15  years ago when Arti asked others a short series of questions about their last wishes, having recently experienced loss herself. What came back was so moving it became an installation and a printed  booklet – the original ‘Last Picture of You’ (LPU). 

This year Arti revisited the original questions with Lisa and invited  friends, family and people she had worked with, to contribute, posing a series of questions to  act as a ‘window’ to their last wishes. 

The responses will form some of the pages here. One  response a day will be ‘released’ on this website  from 21 September 2023 in line with the Deptford X  festival running from 22 September to 1 October  2023. 

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The following responses to the project are now online to access:

A moving, deeply personal,  story about Shaun Gunning and the struggles around pallative care, with a call to action. Watch Liyanne Unasa’s video and artwork response to questions about last wishes whilst living with Cancer. Read Becky Bishop’s response to last wishes (Suicide reference) and see Ali Zaidi’s reflective response with some of his artworks. Karen O’Neill responds with grace and humility after close losses. Emma Robert’s pragmatic and layered. Leigh Andrews, and her mum June. Honest, proud and definately alive. Cheri Gillings shares her poetry and reflections on loss poetically, Arrshi Singh maintains a simple whilst meloncoly reflection dancing in purple. The final two shared on 1st October, Tina Carroll ,both in the skies of life and love with a cost of living conscious. Lisa Lonsdale’s wishes are reflective, wise, and witty, in the dark and light.

More information go to Dates & Events page.

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Last Picture of You will also be  a site-specific installation at  Deptford Lounge, London SE8, developing throughout the  festival. 

If this has sparked your interest, visit HERE to leave  your response to the series of questions about last  wishes that birthed this project. 

You can find juicy and varied resources around grief, death and more.

Last Picture of You © 2023 by Arti Dillon is licensed

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