Working in collaboration with Hazel Dolby using Wordsworth’s poem which is ostensibly about childhood but is about all of life - the stages of growing older and leaving innocence behind. It ties in with the themes of the passing of time and birth, life and death, which we have been exploring for over eight years.
We have both been using pages made from layers of Khadi handmade tissue paper, working to a decided size and using handwriting for the text. I’ve made sewn lines with silk thread which change colour for the sections of the poem. The pages work as a stack but I’ve sewn them together now into a map-like form to make a large sheet which folds in on itself.
