Description
“Here’s to the world, round as a wheel
But the sting of death we all must feel
If life was a thing that money could buy
Then the rich would live and the poor would die
But God in his goodness has ordained it so
That the rich and the poor all together must go
Big bees fly high, little bees make the honey
The poor work hard so the rich have money”
From an old toast which I first heard recited by the Norfolk folk singer Harry Cox
during sessions recorded by Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy during the 1950s
The final picture in a series of four wheel pictures inspired by the turning of the rural year and its cyclical nature in parallel to the cycles of life
This piece appeared in a 2020 exhibition called Hinterland: an exploration of liminal space
Nature, Folklore, dreamworlds, myth, folk song, colour, form, patterns and forces in nature are all key inspirations for pieces in this exhibition collection.
Hinterland is an exploration of in-between spaces such as borders, boundaries, shorelines and other such places in nature. The work also explores more abstract ideas of hinterlands, such as areas lying beyond what is visible or known, the blurred lines between folklore, myth and reality, life and death or dream and consciousness
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