“Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.”
From The Tables Turned by Wordsworth
After spending time at the Wordsworth Museum when planning and installing ‘Breath Water Marks‘, we were moved to respond to the work of William and Dorothy Wordsworth with a new series intertwining words, movement and shapes.
We used oak leaves as our inspiration, as we are drawn to how oak leaves all have a core similarity yet how each also has a clear and unique shape and character. We wanted to explore the sense of oak leaves falling and resting. The series comprises six mobiles, all in oak, and the word markings are made with pyrography. Please be in touch for dimensions and further images.
For a short film of the pieces in the woodland, please see the Journal entry.
Images by David Lindsay
No.1 Come forth
No. 1 Come forth (second view)
No. 2 into the light of things
No. 2 into the light of things (second view)
No. 3
No. 4 Let Nature be
No. 5
No. 6 your teacher
No. 6 your teacher (second view)
We also made a series of 4 pairs of single oak leaf shapes and their cut-outs.
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 143
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 150
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 149
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 148
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 147
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 146
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 144
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 149
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 148
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 141
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 140
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 146
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 145
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 139
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 138
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 137
CONTACT_JG_DEC2023 135