Deborah Bell; South African 1957-; Shining through the Shadows
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Literature : Please change literature to: Bettina Schultz (2004) Taxi-010, Deborah Bell, Johannesburg: David Krut, another impression from the edition illustrated in colour on page 29.
Notes : This work is an extension of themes that I have been working on for the last few years. I have been spending time in museums, and browsing through books and newspapers - recording images from history (which I see as reflecting the emotions of mankind) and weaving them together in poetic conjunctions to create some meaning of where we stand in relation to our past. In this work, I write a poem which says in part " ... images sediment history's emotion, whilst I ride the wind, and span the light on the serpent's back, and feel at my feet the soil's turning to the sun The mirror cracked, time once more begun.". Shining through the Shadows is about a spiritual transformation which overlays an accretion of images and artefacts reflecting events and emotions of our history. A history remembered, yet transfigured - a promise for the new millennium. - Deborah Bell
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