4 – 7 December 2014, Miami Beach. Paul Stolper Gallery, Stand B22.
Four TITTIPUSSIDAD prints on Velin BFK Rives, a traditional fine-art printmaking paper, mould-made, 100% cotton rag, 280gsm. Giclee inkjet, archival full-strength carbon-black pigment.
Sheet size: 112.5 x 76.5 cm.
Photographs & printing by Julian Simmons. Edition of 6, signed and numbered on verso.
LUPE
SARAH SMOKING
OBSIDIAN
OAXACA NUD (1)
“Wet sacks, misfit carrots, mis-shaped potatoes, crafty otters, bastard magpies, and yellowhammer chicks shouting for grub…”
“I might go and grab an oil drum…”
Blustering wind and railing sun, the flatlands, a spring day, 23 April 2014. Carting-in 480 bundles of water-reed on the Norfolk Broads – one of the mad and beautiful preliminary stages of the thatching process.
A film by :
Julian Simmons – camera / editing / incidental music.
Featuring :
Wally Mason – traditional Norfolk reed cutter.
Dominic Meek – thatcher and chairman of the East Anglia Master Thatchers Association.