Tom Hammick
Waiting for Time II, 2016
Reduction woodcut
60 x 80 cm
Variable edition of 15
This work could equally be called Misfit Love or Untethered. It was initially inspired by a John Cheever short story about a young couple who were so in love it...
This work could equally be called Misfit Love or Untethered. It was initially inspired by a John Cheever short story about a young couple who were so in love it became detrimental to their more and more abandoned child.
Here in my image no one is turning up at the school gates. Their relationship is cocooned in an island paradise kitted out with a canoe as escape pod. I think she’s reading Pablo Neruda to herself, probably that delicious and intoxicating poem of riddles called Enigmas about the endless mysteries of nature, while he, quite young and rather useless, is attempting to be a hunter gatherer, in the hope of spearing a fish for supper. The oceanic shelter offered by this shallow island could be washed away in an instant, just in the way that their ‘misfit’ love could disappear after a few restless days in the sunshine.
You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with
his golden feet?
I reply, the ocean knows this.
You say, what is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent
bell? What is it waiting for?
I tell you it is waiting for time, like you.
his golden feet?
I reply, the ocean knows this.
You say, what is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent
bell? What is it waiting for?
I tell you it is waiting for time, like you.
From Enigmas by Pablo Neruda.