..hollow stomachs

As a child I loved the little Observer's books and still have a small collection of them. Sea and Seashore published in 1962 has some delicious illustrations. My favourite pages are of  the 'sea squirts' and the 'sea anemones' which are delightfully hand drawn and coloured . The sea anemones are from the Coelenterata Family which is Greek for 'hollow stomachs'. Structurally simple they nevertheless have great beauty and some rather exotic names!

Gooseberry sea squirt,

Golden Star sea squirt. 

Dead men's fingers.

Beadlet anemone.

Snake-locks anemone.

Wartlet anemone.

 

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Pared back, pruned, clipped, reduced, peeled.

Word search.

I have been looking at words again this week,text to add to my textile drawings. It is a quest for the arbitrary, the furthering of a disconnect which seems to occur anyway in the making of the work. A chance happening that taps in to an oddness which cannot quite be put into words,thus making that search another odd and whimsical exercise.

Hong Kong Birds

   Photograph by Michael Murton

Packet

Constructed drawing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scars of time.

Bodycloth Lessons on Limberg a short film by Rhian Solomon in The Crafts Council's touring exhibition Block Party http://blockparty.org.uk/ explored the relationship between cutting skin and cutting cloth.
The skin's remarkable capacity to heal and repair outdoes that of cloth.Yet so much is written into and onto skin bearing witness to the passage of time.Scars as silent markers to memories.

bias

snap

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Hanne Darboven and the passing of time.....

Ironically, with barely half an hour to spare and time passing rapidly by I popped in to see the Hanne Darboven exhibition at Camden Arts Centre.
http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions/?id=101222
Much of her work is concerned with the passage of time which she records through large series of drawings, mathematical equations and musical notations. The deep notes of a church organ echoed throughout the space repeating the same refrain.This compelling 'sound drawing' accompanied a group of framed musical scores each with their own little confirmation card.

It was the obsessive repetitiousness in the process of making that connected with my own way of working.

Press

 Pencil on paper

Yoke

Hand Constructed Drawing