55.00 GBP
Collage assemblage
stone, antique paper, tracing paper, archival ink, words
11 x 9 x 3 cm approx.
650 gram
Part of the London Rocks art project which explores literary and poetic narratives connected with the river Thames.
This stone, collected from the Thames foreshore at low tide, is fused with an enlarged fragment of an old London map depicting the Isle of Dogs - an area of East London bounded on three sides by one of the London river's largest meanders. Following the Thames meander are verses from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922) describing the Thames:
"The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide
Red sails
Wide
To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.
The barges wash
Drifting Logs
Down Greenwich reach
Past the Isle of Dogs."
The stone's brown/green colour and natural marks reflect Eliot's impressions of the "used" river heaving with human activity, moving with the tides, sweating oil and tar.
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Care Instructions: Please keep this stone out of direct sunlight and sources of heat and humidity.
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The work of collage artist Lito Apostolakou hosted in Inklinks discusses narratives of time, words, memory and history. Lito uses antique papers, archival ink, vintage prints and worn stationery to create collages on found objects like stones, wooden boards and writing cases.
LONDON ROCKS is project that explores the river Thames as a historical and literary narrative. The London Rocks installation will be exhibited in Creative Histories conference, organised by the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts, Bristol 19-21 July 2017.
Lito works from her home studio in Muswell Hill, London.
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