Rec | THIS PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS DIANA

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It’s hanging in a central lobby on the ground floor of the royal marsden hospital in Kensington, behind a grand piano with a vase of flowers on perpetual rotation. A staircase covers three of the four walls, the staircase is solid and so the steps on it always sound very gentle and there is surprisingly a lot of distant laughter heard from there. Meditated over this painting a lot while waiting for my sister to receive treatment and while she was in surgery. It doesn’t take long at all to really feel like the painting sees you and hears your thoughts. I let a lot out on this lady. It isn’t just a painting of princess diana, it’s my friend.

@soft

Apr 5, 2025

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@eatgraeps

Been thinking abt ur saint comment all day obsessed w this painting she is truly the peoples princess and a modern deity

Apr 6, 2025

@brendanooooo

this is quite sweet

Apr 5, 2025

@soft

@BRENDANOOOOO whoever put it there is a genius because it’s on a rare cancers wards and hospitals are usually so unpleasant and sterile that it actually completely disorients you to see a grand piano and a portrait of princess Diana that it kind of reduces the fact you’re on a cancer ward waiting for a loved one. Tried to set the scene because the painting on its own actually looks kind of goofy and I remember finding it goofy when I first saw it but actually it’s a familiar face and the cloudy day and if you actually really imagine intently thinking a message to her, she really looks sympathetic lol. Sorry to be insane about a very unspectacular painting but it’s so incredibly genius to moi.

Apr 5, 2025

@soft

genuinely feels like being in a church praying to a saint

Apr 5, 2025

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