At the Vimeo link above is a short film of my paintings made by Kent Wilson at The Hawthorn Town Hall Art Gallery a couple of years ago. Exhibition entitled 'Overgrown'. Text from the exhibition below. Overgrown 2014 Among the rambling bushes it lies lost: a piece of stone carved lovingly by a stone mason whose skills with his mallet and chisels was delicate and masterful in the way he guided the forged, tempered tools to carve beautiful lines upon and within the body of the stone. From handmade templates, the tracery of the stone was brought into being with an accuracy and artfulness, more deft and elegant than the cheaper casting of a contemporary concrete mould. The stem of the runner gro
One Two Three Four Five Homage to Bertrand Russell b. 1872 d. 1970. One plus one equals two. Fact or fiction, In anyone’s diction, Is a rollick and fiction, Of a mathematical depiction. Two plus two equals four. Learned by rote, The numerical quote, For Russell to dote, And philosophers vote. Three plus three equals six. Rhetorical invention, Is worth a mention, A verbal prevention, For oratorical retention. Four plus four equals eight. Algebraic fate, Bertrand’s poor gate, One minute late, He made us all wait. Five plus five equals ten. Euclid the lucid father, Of geometric truth, no opposition, At ninety degrees he’d rather, Laud the Fifteenth Proposition.
