and in project space…
© frame, printed mesh over killick stone, Philip Bennetta 2019
wire and stone
© frame, printed mesh over killick stone, Philip Bennetta 2019
work in progress
more regular postings of current projects, often described and photographed during the making process…
© frame, printed mesh over killick stone, Philip Bennetta 2019
recent work
hand-sewn pamphlet detail with poem
recent pamphlet publication associated with the Killick project
wire and stone project
rock on rock
wire and stone project
forty rusty screws
Inner Gold
(…Curled in the Triple Storm where Love reposes.
from The Inner Gold by Jean Mambrino, translated by Jonathan Griffin)
three years of redaction, scraping back, adding layers and cutting through…
© Inner Gold, painting, oil on canvas (1 m x 1 m) Philip Bennetta, 2019
wire and stone
and in project space…
© frame, printed mesh over killick stone, Philip Bennetta 2019
a bag full of rags…
and back in the project space, with a bag-full-of-rags…
and new layers added to a painting…
for the 15 July…
sea and stone
Visual additions to current research “wire and stone” …
Killick
This project has been ongoing over a number of years, see earlier notes, and I had hoped that this collection of poems would put the lid on it…
This is now unlikely to be the case, I cannot put the project out of my mind, and I am interested in putting the poems to music…
Making light work, 2019
We have recently returned from this residency with the National Trust, met some lovely folk (four hundred plus visitors) and put together this short film which we hope captures some spirit of time and place…
The poem found, with the impromptu reading in the film by actor Clive Woodward, is taken from Killick (see earlier blog posting).
The National Trust have agreed our residency at this site for 8-14 May 2020
Making Light Work, 2019
at the Former Paraffin Store, St Anthony Head, Roseland, Cornwall:
Killick publication
I have a sense of reaching the final stage of this project, with fifteen sculptural objects made, fifteen short films completed and now a poetry pamphlet, with fifteen poems, each poem having fifteen lines. (The number fifteen relates to the number of bezants, which appear in Cornish heraldry).
I have cut the paper, printed one set of pages and sewn up the first pamphlet. Please have a look at my earlier research notes on the Killick project. Perhaps I just need to give the pamphlet one last look…
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