40.00 GBP
London my Home is
collage on stone
approx. dimensions 8 x 8
weight 503 gram
River Thames rock, antique paper, archival ink, extract from Robert Herricks's poem His Return to London:
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O place! O people! Manners! fram'd to please
All nations, customs, kindreds, languages!
I am a free-born Roman; suffer then
That I amongst you live a citizen.
London my home is ...
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
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A London rock for lovers of London and the written word.
Rock is pictured here on a piece of metal found on the Thames foreshore. The piece of metal is not included.
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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 3D collages on found objects like stones, wooden boards and writing cases.
LONDON ROCKS is a 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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