Every Night She Worries (That Something Terrible Has Happened) Because He Persists In Coming Home Late ,1999
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Notes : In a passage in their 2014 monograph on Peter Clarke[i], Elizabeth Rankin and Philippa Hobbs write eloquently about this work:“In She worries because he comes home late every night (1999) two figures occupy the same building but seem isolated, separated from each other by the architecture of the house. […] The gulf between the two figures is also established through their opposing means of representation for, while one is a simple white form in the doorway, the other is a photocopy of a photograph of an artist Clarke had met in Baltimore in 1976. The starting point for the work is the way she appeared in the original photograph, as if waiting for something to happen.The woman looks anxiously out of the window [says Clarke] because her husband is late again, that is if he is coming. It is related to peoplewhose husbands work out of town. It is also related to my cousin who lived in Heideveld..and who did not come home. His body was found a few days later.The figure that accompanies her lonely presence is reminiscent of the elongated plank-like vigango commemmorative posts with shaped heads, commonly placed at the homes of the deceased by Giryama traditionalists in East Africa.”
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