Ha …we don’t have to hand the horses back yet – this weekend has been cancelled – probably wisely – due to the appalling forecast.
I have to own to being a bit pleased – if sorry for those that had organised the weekend. The horses have been invited to Margate – to the Lone Twin Boat Project celebration when the boat docks on July 15th weekend. Definitely party time….we would have been sad to have missed that.
Strangely we have taken the project all around Kent during the year and its only now that it is getting the recognition- just as we have agreed to return the horses to their makers. Its been a slow burn.
Three days now before I have to put my exhibition up.
Typically I have finally got down to a work that has been perculating for a while. It showcases shoe soles that I beachcombed at Dungeness. I think they are very beautiful in their own right – and sad and silent.
They speak to me of journeys but their derelict state also speaks of abandonment or aloneness.
They have become a work called ‘I let go your hand’ about those early love relationships where inexperience rendered the journey too hard to complete, but that still haunt us in some way.
For once in my life I can say I really like the work. Usually it takes me a while to be sure.
Lets hope its a good omen.
