Well, I propose that Pat and I should vote for each other (her entry introduced another element, a tactile suggestion of welds and waxdrips, joining my entry to Sharon's) and I'm sure she'll join me in a huge vote of thanks to Sharon for proposing this drill. I've enjoyed the challenge of using what raw materials I had to offer even though it was not what Sharon originally hoped for. I am delighted by the notion that our working processes seem to have been mirror-images. Sharon began with two fixed pictures and, in blending them, invited the intrusion of the random, whereas I began by extracting random elements from the pictures and combining them into a fixed idea (though I tried to hide it in a playful, obscuring form).
Riddles are a good way of joining poetry to the other arts. I worked with a sculptor on a large piece at the entrance to a riverside walk in the town where I live, a seriously impoverished post-industrial landscape. Seven standing stones...
The Riddle of the Seven Stones
My first is in beech but not in pine
My second’s in coal but not in mine
My third is in seam but not in wheel
My fourth is in iron but not in steel
My fifth is in nant but not in river
My last is in always but not in forever
(The last stone has the answer to the riddle, carved on its flat top.)
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