Engedi Easter arts festival. 2012
1. Did you see this man? (Incident here, April 6th 2012) Oxidised copper, pigment, p.v.a., thorn, bluebottle. I was lucky enough to be invited to make a piece for the Engedi Arts festival last Easter. 30 different artists were invited to submit a proposal in response to a given theme. I was allocated ‘Christ and doubting Thomas’. Surprisingly, we were not necessarily encouraged to respond to the theme in an overtly religious way. I was relieved. I am an artist who questions the nature and existence of the human soul. I might be pretentious (as all art is*) but hopefully, I’m not hypocritical. I chose to look at the circumstances of how Thomas received his news of Jesus’ resurrection – he was only disciple for whom proof came verbally, rather than visually. This sculpture – the first of a series of five – shows a crown with a single thorn. |
Pub talk.
Pheasant feathers, text, gold leaf. This card shows a flurry of words pasted onto feathers – the ephemeral nature of pub talk. They were unrecorded.....lost forever. They surround the words also spoken that night which were written down, and guarded with gold leaf for the next two thousand years. How much of history is never captured? |
Cast the first stone.
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The price on your head is in part - payment for a promise.
Print, oxidised copper, human teeth, coin, Bible, rabbit skull, pebble from Porth Meudwy. (Or are they telling the truth?)
Oxidised copper, pebbles from various locations, gathered at various times.
This picture overleaf shows these two sculptures being made and set up here at the blue earthworm, in advance of the Engedi exhibition. |
The price on your head is in part - payment for a promise.
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“Arena of Doubt.”
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The careful Load.
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