Saturday 30 October 2010

Here is the chaff


This is the second part of the work, the chaff or carvings out from the clay tablets. They were as much Juana's name as the cuneiform incisions I thought. I have wanted in this work to suggest something about the precious and irreplaceable. Here's what I came up with.

3 comments:

Kay said...

Beautiful concept. To me it says that what we leave behind is as precious and important as what we physically are. It's fascinating seeing this poem/artwork emerging.

Jean Atkin said...

It's very moving, Jen, because you've made it (literally) tangible.

Really enjoyed your reading and conversation in Dumfries this week. I liked what you said about the role of speech in poetry, it really is the human voice, isn't it?
Should say Dave B seems thrilled with his limpet... Jean x

screamish said...

This is great...really great idea...the positive and negative space of her name...wow...glad the firing went well, those clay tablets look nicely done...