Anyone passing near to Nailsworth might like to know that Tom has a
show of his own at the moment in the Cairn Gallery(The Old Stamp
Office, George St) called "Flowers & Fruit" which continues until
this Saturday. In it he is emerging as an inscriptional land-artist
or something similar (nice that poetry can be "shown" through silence
and not just read). There are some beautiful texts there, and there
is also a newly published card called "Ten Attentions". I quote
(without permission) a few sentences:
Not forms but the relations between forms
Not the obvious but the inconspicuous
Not light but air
Not the object of desire but the presence of desire
Not colours but values
Not the gate but the field
A recent "wee" pamphlet of his worth getting is "Grey over Green"
which is on sale in the gallery.
The whole show (which contains some real fruit and flowers) makes
me think of what it is insciptions can do as a distinctive variant
of generic text - the importance of surface, scale, placement,
changing light, affixing a text to something, next to some other
object etc
Peter
Peter Larkin
Philosophy & Literature Librarian
University of Warwick Library
Coventry CV4 7AL UK
Tel: 01203 528151 Fax: 01203 524211
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