UNA MAÑANA HERMOSA

UNA MAÑANA HERMOSA - A BEAUTIFUL MORNING

Una Mañana Hermosa previewed in Palma on Thursday 20th June 2024 and was installed for four weeks.

For the solstice it was accompanied by A Tinderbox of Fables, playing in a gesso frame at the entrance to the studio.

Installed in an upright diptych format in response to the space.

Thank you to everyone who came.

Very happy that people left comments:
‘mesmerising and beautiful’
‘thank you for this small pause from the running world’
‘it’s beautiful…very necessary these days’
‘thank you for touching my heart with subtle poetry and yet profound painful truth. Life is the biggest gift and yet we hardly remember’
‘poignant, peaceful and tranquil’
‘very profound’
‘oh my God, it’s so beautiful, it made me cry’

Un cortometraje que recopila algunos de los pensamientos que la gente ha dejado en el libro.

In my studio, the vestige of a man found on the plastered wall. Made by damp. By time.

It struck me immediately...leaning into the waves, a wheelbarrow laden with earth, an undertaking in hand.

Along the way, collecting found objects and their stories, I decided to recreate the figure in the landscape on a gesso panel, isolating and liberating the chimera.

I was installing Una Manana Hermosa and took a walk through the old town to buy water. Turned down Carrer del VI, a long steep sided alleyway, amidst the sound of children’s chiming playtime voices coming from the school that lines the path.

On the path, a sign of mischief in class, a symbol of rebellion, a bid for freedom, a soaring innocence…a simple, crafted international toy - a paper aeroplane that had been launched from the window. I picked it up, flew it badly a couple of times then took it back to the studio,photographed it and printed it onto a gesso panel and put it on display next to Push the Tide, another found image.

And another found object. The white feather followed me into the studio from the courtyard, drifted over the threshold.

Also in this gallery, some of the exhibited gesso panels.