poem by post with film still and poem from our film flowers that fade
Here’s the link to our film: https://youtu.be/dQrT0go7LQs
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flowers that fade
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willows of the brook
poem by post: film-link and poem from our film willows of the brook
Here’s the link to the film, with good wishes: https://youtu.be/6r8R8mQzNlc
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conversation (iii)
Delighted to have “conversation (iii)”, oil and collage material on canvas, included in the Linden Hall Studio Winter Group Show exhibition, Deal, Kent from 3 December 2024 to 31 January 2025
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Pleased to post this link to our latest short poem-film, published to coincide with Canterbury Festival Artists’ Open Houses, in which we are participating – open this week-end and next week-end. The work is to do with place, memory, and the making process, filmed and recorded in Walmer, Deal, Kent, England.
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my magic bench
Sculptures for October exhibition, featuring ‘Killick’ Dancers (‘Killick’ – ancient anchor for small boat). Planning to work on music-poem-film, watch this space for Killick circles and a serpent dance…
dance circle sculptures
work preparing oak timbers for dancing Killick (orig. ancient anchor for small boat) with all good wishes
light and dark (I)-(IV)
These unique prints (U/P) are inspired by my move from Cornwall to the Kent coast at Walmer, UK.
I carry a sense of place; of moorland life, its light and dark skies, landscape, streams, to this stretch of coast in Kent, using carborundum to make the studies. The plate is inked up, put through an etching press, to make the strong black and whites. I am attracted to the Carborundum technique, invented in the 1930’s – it holds a resonance for me in the arts and pamphlet-making.
the dancers
the dancers (film link: https://youtu.be/xK4VPQn-Vbk )
Notes:
The Dancers is inspired by an earlier project, including research, publications and film, Making the Killick (2018): https://youtu.be/gd0RsJgKHAM
The stones from my original Killick project are now in a stream on Bodmin Moor, at South Trekeive; I decided they just had to remain in Cornwall, when I left for Kent.
I also thought about ceremoniously burning the frames that held each Killick stone before we left, and I did not. Rather, they came to our new home in Walmer, Kent.
The frames sat on a shelf in my work space for several months, and then I found hag-stones in the garden (small stones/pebbles with a hole through them) and the idea of the Killick and stones re-emerged.
a selection of hag-stones found in our garden, Walmer, Kent, digital photograph, Philip R. Bennetta, 2023
This time, I thought to have the stones grouped on the outside, rather than inside the frame; embracing and holding the frame (ludras). I made fourteen of these bracelets, in all – two for each of the seven frames I had chosen; each bracelet has seven stones.
I considered narrating a poem I had been working on, and I did not. I have kept the film simple, with sound/music, that I recorded late one evening, on the dulcimer. An ethereal sound, something of the sea, the true home for a killick (ancient anchor for a small boat) is what I sought, and I stretched the sound, until I found it…
the dancers (film link: https://youtu.be/xK4VPQn-Vbk )
I hope you find something here for yourself. Also, please take a look at my research page, for more information on the Killick project.
‘we’re all at sea’
A short film, published today, to do with place, art and global warming, featuring twenty ink and watercolour paintings on postcards, showing some of the making process, with original music
‘Rosy Garlic’ a new poem by post
Each Poem by Post is a collaborative project involving a contemporary poet and an artist, with one invited to respond to the work of the other. Limited editions of these traditionally made pamphlets are the creative outcome and these unique publications are available exclusively to those involved in the project, for their own use. Rosy Garlic is our latest hand-sewn pamphlet in the series.
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