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1996 |
Approx. 5 mtrs wall space. 7 Framed works ea.
60cm x 48cm plus |
Pencil, Ink and Seaweed on Paper. Plus Two
Photographs, Burnt Wood and Callipers. |
1.
Order .
. . it is always just an attempt in making order of chaos.
2. Burnt Wood
3. John Kelly's Letter
1839 The
1812 weavers' strike marked the turning point in the
history of the weavers' trade. After the defeat of
the weavers there was a prolonged, agonising and scarcely
interrupted decline until by the 1830's enormous numbers
were living on the edge of destitution.
4. Callipers
5. Lemma If a
body at A be impelled by two A forces at the same
time, the one in the directioch she advances as impressed
by the wind, and AD the line upon which she is driven
by the current) will move along the diagonal AC,
and will be in the point C, at the end of the time
in which it would have moved along AD or AB, as impelled
by either of those forces (the wind or current) separately.n AB, carrying it from
A to B in a certain space of time, and the other
in the direction AD, pushing it from A to D in the
same time; complete the parallelogram ABCD, and draw
the diagonal AC: then the body at A, (which let us
suppose a ship agitated by the wind and current;
AB being the line along whi
6. Glenelg Town Hall
from the Jetty The Sea
lost nothing of the swallowing identity of its great
outer rnass
of waters in the emphatic, individual character of each particular
wave. Each wave, as it rolled in upon the high-pebbled
beach,
was an epitome of the whole body of the sea, and carried
with it all the vast mysterious quality of the earth's
ancient
antagonist.
The girl stood by the
ship's rail watching the gradual approach of the blurred
shapes of houses, wharves and darkened office-buildings,
the vessel steamed to her moorings beside the entrance
to the pier. Staring sadly at the water, which rose and
fell amid the flickering lights, she noted with a cold,
unhappy meticulousness how each separate wave that touched
the ship's side differed from all the others. - from 'Weymouth Sands' by
John Cowper Powys
7. Leonore If
you could see Mary now I am sure you would not know her,
she is so stout again as she was, and has not had a days
sicknefs since she came here, she many a time pities you
when she thinks of you all confined in the Gallowgate up
three stairs while we are under a fine climate, with plenty
of parrots flying over us, and in as delightful
a country as any one could wish to live in. • from John
Kelly's Letter
8. Ophelia.
. . some of the women praying, others dumb with despair.
After those returned to their quarters Captain Gatenby
astonished me by saying 'If ever we are compelled
to take to the boats, only cuddy-passengers will
be allowed to embark. The Emmigrants must stay behind.
- Geogina McCrae on board the Argyle 1840
9. Oh
We are such Bastards ! Glasgow
1840 . . . 50 percent of children died under the age of 5
years. Many worked in mines where the pit bottoms were like
common sewers filled with slush and water with an inclination
of one in three and along thse common sewers the women, half
naked, crawled on hands and knees, harnessed like horses
to their bogies of coal - little boys aged four or five,
sat all day in the darkness at the trap doors cold and shivering,
begging for a candle end for light.- from 'Weavers to
Wapstraws'
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