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"The Young Laird" |
"Uncle Arthur" |
"Mrs McHardy" |
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sold |
sold |
sold |
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"Elsie Good" |
"Tundra Jean" |
"Malcolm Golightly, The Hiker" |
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£750 |
£750 |
£750 |
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THE CHARACTERS |
| The Characters are
made from pulped newspaper. They are word munchers, fat from
Heralds, Guardians, Observers, Couriers and Telegraphs – bursting
with words. The newspaper pulp is layered over an armature to flesh out their bodies. The words are all mixed up into a soggy chaotic verbiage. As the pulp dries the words are digested and re-cycled into a new body. It’s as if the words settle and make sense again. Flimsy, transient newspaper, discarded after its one-day lifespan, is converted into a solid upstanding being. We can no longer see text, but it is as if the paper has formed the body mass and the unseen words form the soul. Their scripts are in the minds of us, the observers. Each character provides a surface for our projections. Conversely, they are also our audience, watching us, attentive, hearing our stories and absorbing them in to their voluminous bodies. They stand composed, with few dramatic gestures. It is this which gives them their presence. There is a feeling that if we are patient, we will intuit their stories. |
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