25/05/2026
This is hard to show but I’m working on my figures. Helen Keller (who wrote it) talks of hidden jewels in ‘a thousand hues of grey’ as she imagines them buried deep in stone. Helen was deaf and blind. Her imagination was asounding to me as I read the poem. It rambles on for a very long time but if you find it, the beginning is worth a read to appreciate what she ‘sees’ unlike myself whose sight has been more surface level. Anyway, how to reference these jewels in a subtle way?… I decided to stitch into the echoes of text I have built over many of the sections. Here you can see gold but in other places I have some sapphire, ruby and emerald just catching the eye when you look closely. I often think I have put so much meaning from both my love of stone walls and Keller’s inspirational poem into the figures yet a viewer may be blind to it. Art is an odd thing. You want to communicate so much and yet you have to abandon that to the eye of the viewer who may see something of it….
or nothing at all.
