REBECCA & FRANCIS: horse house
4 May 2024 – 29 Jun 2024
Rebecca @doubledecka
These textile sculptures [horses and mules] might show how
interested I am in housing stability, home cosiness, and
stuff. I worry about housing, for me, and on a much larger
scale. The flipside is that I’m very aware of how lucky I
am, to live in a lovely old flat with 3 others. It’s like
living in a library, a useful box, a home. On the other
hand I have too much stuff, tho I cull every time I move,
and buy or find less of everything nowadays especially if I
imagine carrying it up and down stairs. And yet another
side to this story, in a pinch I could probably build a
shelter out of the books, boxes, old furniture .
These textile sculptures [horses and mules] might show how
interested I am in housing stability, home cosiness, and
stuff. I worry about housing, for me, and on a much larger
scale. The flipside is that I’m very aware of how lucky I
am, to live in a lovely old flat with 3 others. It’s like
living in a library, a useful box, a home. On the other
hand I have too much stuff, tho I cull every time I move,
and buy or find less of everything nowadays especially if I
imagine carrying it up and down stairs. And yet another
side to this story, in a pinch I could probably build a
shelter out of the books, boxes, old furniture .
The idea came in a flash, from reading a poem a friend
sent, the link to horses was alive. I wanted it to be
hopepunk enough, so if you look into the window you’ll feel
that rather than despair [if that is the flipside of
hopepunk?].
by the way- these horses are all ok- they are alive, but
exhausted, from carrying too much stuff. They’ll be ok
after resting here in Forest Lodge for a few weeks.
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #21
Can you own land, can you
own house, own rights
to other’s labor, (stocks, or factories
or money, loaned at interest)
Can you own land, can you
own house, own rights
to other’s labor, (stocks, or factories
or money, loaned at interest)
what about
the yield of same, crops, autos
airplanes dropping bombs, can you
own real estate, so others
pay you rent? to whom
does the water belong, to whom
will the air belong, as it gets rarer?
the american indians say that a man
can own no more than he can carry away
on his horse.
Diane Di Prima 1968-71
@francis.meow
A story is being written as we speak,
set close to Mt Treacle, and it is even more
colourful, more hopepunk, and more visual than these
paintings. Abstract landscapes will illustrate it,
but also exist separately, as you can see here in
this exhibition. There’ll be a zine too, but that
will be more a chance to see Francis’s horse
paintings. This not a static show, new things will
appear, and what you see here now might move around
a bit.
A story is being written as we speak,
set close to Mt Treacle, and it is even more
colourful, more hopepunk, and more visual than these
paintings. Abstract landscapes will illustrate it,
but also exist separately, as you can see here in
this exhibition. There’ll be a zine too, but that
will be more a chance to see Francis’s horse
paintings. This not a static show, new things will
appear, and what you see here now might move around
a bit.