Never fails to astonish me - the view across the Vale of York from Sutton Bank escarpment path on the fringes of the North York Moors- for air and a distant horizon. Walking its edge, catching the racing light driving across the horizon over its patchwork of fields. Drama in the sky - nuclear clouds, kestrels diving, gliders soaring fragile in the aggressive wind. I used my completed mixed media paintings plus videos and sound recordings taken when on the plateau.
poetry responds to art
Two art works exchange aphorisms
A series examining artworks in the environment and their relationship with people and more importantly with each other. What do they talk about when facing each other? Like these two in the grounds the the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art ( Mod Two) :-
Two Two-Way Mirrored Parallelograms Joined with One Side Balanced Spiral Welded Mesh by Dan Graham; and
-There will be no miracles here by Nathan Coley
I imagined them being quite assertive about the importance of themselves and their meaning in the world