Creative, witty, imaginative, quirky, inspired...

Other Worlds is a  temporary exhibition at the not-yet-existing Story Museum in Oxford. If it raises enough money, the museum will open in 2014. Meanwhile the driving forces behind it are doing wonderful things in a labyrinthine, semi-derelict, ex-post office building. For this far-too-brief exhibition they have invited artists and writers each to do what they will with one of the many rooms: create a swing made from leaves; scatter enveloped objects that visitors can take home and use to write a story to be posted back later; stick officialese post office-style notices on the wall, and manila-filed stories in the pigeon holes; hang up numbered keys, on each of whose labels is the beginning of a story (to find the continuation you use the key to unlock a box); start a story at a typewriter for visitors to continue; install word rain that pours into the room through a hole in the ceiling...

I came out of the exhibition feeling that my mind had been gently opened up, exposed to fresh air, sunlight and spring-water, then put back in slightly better order.

If you like stories and are in reach of Oxford (that includes you, parochial Londoners) visit. Last chance is this Thursday or Friday (1pm-7pm) Saturday (1-5) or Sunday (10-4). If you can borrow a child you will see the museum differently but there is plenty for adults.

This museum window faces the street and contains an invisible cloak mending kit, a 100-year eye-mask for sleeping beauties, apple-poisoning mix, wolf-repellent aerosol for pigs, white rabbit watch oil...

My image yesterday was the beginning of any story you like; I knew I was going to tell you a bit more about stories today. I also thought white on white, which I've been thinking about playing with for a while, rather suited yesterday's washed-out brain (now quite recovered). The set-up was a small part of an art installation, but not from the Story Museum.