I spent time this week creating a poem-installation for the Waterweek 2019 Vital Water Exhibition at Gallery North in Hailsham.
Embodiment & Embodied Poetics
[The Binnie Sisters at Birling Gap Summer Solstice 2003/ Sonnet]
This sonnet was written from notes taken during an encounter with Christine Binnie’s large ceramic pot, The Binnie Sisters at Birling Gap Summer Solstice 2003, at the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; exhibited as part of Figure Study II, spring 2019.
Dub-Ritual Poetry
The dubs in our ritual collaboration became duppies: the returned spectres of colonial racial violence in contemporary Britain; the silences of the untold; the repetitions and echoes of (one) another's words.
BodyWorlds
& it’s not just the pink & white colour of the muscle & cartilage which i guess is the same in us all underneath but the facial features like blue eyes & pinched nose the look of determination and the arm cocked behind in a lunge toward progress ever onwards it’s a white man’s face … Continue reading BodyWorlds
Sally-Shakti Willow 