Fireweed
(2017 - 18)
T.S. Eliot’s descriptions of the abstracted landscapes in The Wasteland inspired a series of elegies sketched during long walks along the East London canals and the river Lea. ‘Fireweed’ departs from a text by Brian Dillon, that describes the Rosebay willow herb as a symbol of of both regeneration and decay. The dormant weeds collected for the still life had grown in the riverbed by Arcadia street in Poplar, a century after East London was heavily bombed during the First World War.
T.S. Eliot’s descriptions of the abstracted landscapes in The Wasteland inspired a series of elegies sketched during long walks along the East London canals and the river Lea. ‘Fireweed’ departs from a text by Brian Dillon, that describes the Rosebay willow herb as a symbol of of both regeneration and decay. The dormant weeds collected for the still life had grown in the riverbed by Arcadia street in Poplar, a century after East London was heavily bombed during the First World War.
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