Del Kathryn Barton The Alchemy of Imagined Worlds

We live in an overly anaesthetised society. A society that teaches us to fear pain, to fear complexity, to fear the messiness of internal spaces,” Del Kathryn Barton says. “As an artist, these are the spaces that you have to courageously step into every day, and turn all the anxiety and worry and uncertainty into a kind of superpower.” It’s 10 am on a Monday morning, and Barton is speaking to me through my pixelated computer monitor. The screen glitches every minute or so, constantly reminding me that we are not standing together in her studio, but are separated by both geography and the whims of my internet provider. Yet