Sign in Subscribe
2 min read Paid Subscriber Content

AND I DREAMED YOU DREAMED ABOUT ME

AND I DREAMED YOU DREAMED ABOUT ME
Foreground: Emma Bingham, Continuum, 2023 13 monotype prints on usu kuchi kozo paper. Background: Emma Bingham, Mantle (Threshold series), 2022-23 awagami kozo paper, wax, ink, tarlatan, thread, 155cm x 110cm.

A response to Emma Bingham’s Continuum[1]

Veils filter translucence, shifting with the arc of a day’s light

Shell-echoing crumples suggest the shapes of bone, secret worlds within a body

Hanging skins. Close, in a pattern, a rhythm, a composition in delicate paper fibres. Read this as a song: sung low and silent near water

Here are images of the end and start of life, caught and shared in their long delicacy –

Bright, fragile, strong and flimsy

This post is for paying subscribers only


Published by:

Andrew Harper

You might also like...

Jan
31
Have you ever been experienced?

Have you ever been experienced?

Notes and thoughts around Namedropping
16 min read
Dec
22
Notes on Apologue Isle (and other exhibitions)

Notes on Apologue Isle (and other exhibitions)

I think art is really good at communicating things that are not going to work quite so well with words.
7 min read
Dec
07
Notes on paper towns and abandoned places

Notes on paper towns and abandoned places

Contemporary jewellery and object responses: what we take, what we cast off, and what might have been.
4 min read
Oct
18
One for sorrow, two for joy

One for sorrow, two for joy

Jo Chew Despard Gallery Activism in the arts is a complex thing. There is art that is strident and obviously
8 min read
Sep
28
MAKE AND DO SEPTEMBER: I AM SO TIRED I MIGHT JUST DISSOLVE

MAKE AND DO SEPTEMBER: I AM SO TIRED I MIGHT JUST DISSOLVE

There’s a JG Ballard story, The Wind from Nowhere, that describes a terrifying wind that gets more and more intense, making civilisation impossible and plaguing people’s mental health.
26 min read