Plot
The crowd watches as she walks forward and unthreads a pale rose. Its thornless stem, shaven into meek concave depressions, fits her fingers.
Collecting
Things on the windowsill,
amongst books,
on the mantelpiece,
in a jewellery box,
on the desk,
in a wide flat bowl,
in a glass cabinet,
hanging in the studio.
Nautilus shell found on beach in Oman
Old wood burr for veneering (olive)
Swirled glass paperweight
Driftwood from Andalucia
Flint nodule creature
Royal Crown Derby golden octopus
Old carved Brazil nut fruit(8 Brazil nut seeds inside)
Fossilised megladon tooth
Fossilised sea urchin from Morocco
Crystal Palace paperweight
Coral mounted on marble
Victorian sawfish bill
Tin mechanised fish swallowing fish
Ship in a Chanel bottle
A pair of painted lead giraffes
Meteor-struck moonlike paperweight
Vine knot
Fossilised conch seashell
Bronze female torso
Shiva Lingam (stone) from India
Victorian wooden spinning top
Horseshoe crab shell
Large ammonite
Papier maché birds from India, 1880
Fossilised sea anemone
Sand paperweight
Japanese Meiji bookweight in the shape of a dragon
Carved hare on burr
Polished lapis lazuli
1920s porcelain mermaid
Syro-Hittite tomb bull
Desert rose from Andalucia, Spain
French cast iron cacao shell trinket box from Paris
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Sturgeon
A scrooning day, kettering with shivered sound
Clouds wetten rain between storm hollow brewwen,
Blue-knuckled men all nointy old bound
Pig scrannel sails, blenched bellyforth hewen
The Seasons (1996)
light, fire, river
sparkle, sprout, bloom
minnow water
decayed, repulsive;
Who?
Anxious Chronicles (2010-ongoing)
The past and the future redrawn in the present. In this ongoing series, collage, paint, pencil, crayon, print and thread subvert original postcards dated 1897-now, creating new lived experiences.