WICKERY AND PLACE

NB:First published in Garland Magazine

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With the memory of a rustic sign in a front yard along a highway the search for an obscure ‘basket maker’ turned out to be a more than interesting enterprise. It was to be one of those occasions when the apparently ordinary becomes extraordinary, where the everyday somehow becomes somewhat exotic. More to the point, it became a hunt of a kind where insights into some remarkable storytelling can be gleaned.

A room can never really be empty because it is always full of potential. So too it is with any hunt.  When a wispy white feather rides upon the air currents, it just floating there can fill a vast room – and especially so if it is a ‘whitebox’ art gallery. That floating feather, or a memory of a sign on a fence, can fill vast spaces right up. There will always be hints in the feather’s story, even in a memory of a sign, just by it being there and almost inevitably there is much to ponder upon.... CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

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