When Spring Comes (B49)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Martin Wenham
Title
When Spring Comes
Made in
Coalville
Date
1993
Description
Split log of slightly twisted wood, with incised lettering with a smoothly polished surface. Letting on one side reads: 'All things shall melt away and turn into songs when spring comes'. Letting on the other side reads: 'For the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert'.
Materials and techniques
Holly wood with incised lettering.
Dimensions
length: 73cm
width: 20cm
height: 11cm
Packed Length: 77cm
Packed Width: 44cm
Packed Height: 23cm
Object number
B49
Category
Maker's statement
Texts: "All things...'" is attributed to Kahlil Gibran but exact source untraced. "For in the wilderness...'" Isaiah 35,6. It was the latest in a long line of pieces which use the given form of wood and colour, grain, etc. as a very important base-line in the design process, i.e. the wood isn't a raw material I work on but something I work with - rather like an exploratory conversation. Also a new departure in that it can be hung on its edge on a vertical surface or be mounted horizontally: two sculptures for the price of one! Exhibited in Visions and Revisions Collection Touring Exhibition, closed 1998.