more regular postings of current projects, often described and photographed during the making process…
The Birch Tree in our garden at Walmer, Kent UK – we’ve been here for nearly a year!
The Birch tree is a pioneer species, one that colonised Britain after the Ice Age, giving it a symbol of rebirth and new beginnings. It is a sacred tree in Celtic mythology, and thought to have highly protective influences.
our latest short film, with rising, sinking, tilting issues…
the latest project, featuring 21 ink and watercolour drawings on postcards…
We are very pleased to have our little film “The Dancers”, selected for the Music Art Film Craft Fest, in Nashville TN. Thanks to all concerned and thanks for viewing.
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.
the latest project, featuring the making process, sculptural objects and music:
hope something here finds you
So pleased to have our recent collaborative project published in the French Literary Review, Issue 40, Edited by Barbara Dordi.
A Poem by Post published today by Community of Poets & Artists Press, as a 2nd edition, to mark 25 years of the series.
celebrates with a second edition of one of its first Poem by Post publications
The original lithograph, which featured in the 1998 publication of Her Face, a poem by Michael Curtis with Lithograph by Philip Bennetta, was re-set in its frame in 2023 by Hann-Harr Framing, Hythe, Kent. UK and re- photographed for a second (2023) limited edition, published soon. Here is the lithograph, Into Every Dream
Rosy Garlic’, is our latest short film, with original artwork by Susan Bennetta. If you viewed, and liked the earlier vesion, which was deleted for technical reasons, please view our latest effort here, and see if you can spot any differences! Thank you for viewing and hope something in it finds you, with good wishes.
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