Category: Artwork

Disposessed

I Don’t Have Another Land, 2022, Nathan Coley at the Towner, Eastbourne

“I Don’t Have Another Land is a contemporary text sculpture by the internationally renowned and Turner Prize-shortlisted artist Nathan Coley. Coley creates these monumental sculptures using existing phrases that come from overheard conversations, song lyrics, news report, books or any found text. I Don’t Have Another Land was a piece of graffiti found on a wall in Jerusalem in the early 2000s. The phrases used in Coley’s artwork take on new meaning in each place they’re exhibited.”
– from the Towner website

Thus Spake Zebulun?

Kingsway, Brighton

from Wikipedia:
Zebulun (Hebrew: זְבֻלוּן/זְבוּלֻן/זְבוּלוּן, Modern: Zəvūlūn, Tiberian: Zăḇūlūn;[2] also Zebulon, Zabulon, or Zaboules in Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus, was, according to the Books of Genesis and Numbers,[1][3] the last of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob’s tenth son), and the founder of the Israelite tribe of Zebulun. Some biblical scholars believe this to be an eponymous metaphor providing an etiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.[4][verification needed] With Leah as a matriarch, biblical scholars believe the tribe to have been regarded by the text’s authors as a part of the original Israelite confederation.[5]

The Tomb of Zebulun is located in Sidon, Lebanon. In the past, towards the end of Iyyar, Jews from the most distant parts of the land of Israel would make a pilgrimage to this tomb.[6]

Untitled

Brighton Museum and Art Gallery

A striking image we saw at the museum that I failed to make a note of. The best I can reconstruct from the museum’s web site is that it might have been part of this exhibit. I have long considered using my calligraphy skills on photographs but some early experiments proved disappointing. It’s still on my list of future projects, however.

A Dark Story

Grayson Perry at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

This ceramic appears to show children happily playing, but look closely and you see the darkness of the background (note, for instance, the house inscribed with swastikas). For more, take a look at Cuddly Toys Caught on Barbed Wire, here.