SHIRE, 2021
A lot of my art is based on astronomy but sometimes it's based on –
"Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?"
The colour of strawberries now slightly tainted in soot; the black, the ashes of the bridges burnt and fires that tore at you as you were finding your way. I keep reading things like "trust that you are headed in the right direction" but what if there's no such thing as a right direction? I once wrote that there is no right way to do life and I still firmly believe that, because how do you prescribe someone a way to live? So here is soot but adorned still with the stubborn hope of childhood and of home and of a time and place in which you belonged, and when Danez Smith wrote "do you know that it's like to live someplace that loves you back?" and your answer was yes, always, yes.
"Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?"
The colour of strawberries now slightly tainted in soot; the black, the ashes of the bridges burnt and fires that tore at you as you were finding your way. I keep reading things like "trust that you are headed in the right direction" but what if there's no such thing as a right direction? I once wrote that there is no right way to do life and I still firmly believe that, because how do you prescribe someone a way to live? So here is soot but adorned still with the stubborn hope of childhood and of home and of a time and place in which you belonged, and when Danez Smith wrote "do you know that it's like to live someplace that loves you back?" and your answer was yes, always, yes.