Nicola is finishing her MA this June. Here are some images for you to enjoy of the production of her gate for the final show, starting with the private view on Friday 6th June at UWE Bower Ashton Campus.
Birdwings
Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror
up to where you are bravely working.
Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,
here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see.
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralysed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as birdwings.
– Rumi
An installation by Mark Dion.
I was pleased to be working with him on this project.
A story of wood energy in my life! I was in a real funk last week when I had been on the computer too long! I felt frustrated and didn’t know what to do!
After a walk in Ashton court, I decided to draw an ash tree as I’m so worried about them –
I took the drawing into lithography and printed this!
I call it – one in ten