TOLLE LEGE – ST AUGUSTINE AND A LOBSTER IN BED.
Lime wood carving, church kneeler, ledger.
1.7 x 1.2 x 1.2metres.
2025
I had the idea to make a carving of St Augustine in bed with a lobster from a drawing I did on the coach to London.
The Original Drawing
Rotate video in photo studio.
Detail:
Publicity post card drop route through Bath.
There was a ledger on the bed, which included pretty much every thought I had regarding St Augustine, Jean Luc Godard's film Pierrot Le Fou and the genocide in Gaza. These things and a lot of other things. It seemed like I had plugged into a complete world that was waiting for me to shine a light on it.
I produced an A4 landscape 300 page perfect bound concordance to the ledger. This attempted to explain everything that was in the project, with links and images.
Ten copies were produced, some of which were sold, but mainly I wanted people, if they were interested in digging as deep as I had, to be able to access it here:
This is a video the pop singer Dua Lipa posted on her instagram. I like Dua Lipa. She was in a cafe in Cornwall when the Sunset Lexicon exhibition was on. I was in the queue behind her and had my book from the exhibition which had a photograph of her as a mermaid in the film Barbie on one of the pages concerning the paintings on the wall in Breage church. I should have taken the opportunity to invite her to the exhibition but the previous night I had drunk several bottles of Delirium beer which is about 15% and I was feeling sick. Anyway, this photo is from when Dua Lipa went to the Prado. I have included a photo below that of when I went to the Prado. I shouldn't have taken the picture as there was a woman screaming at everyone to stop photographing, something which I do not imagine Ms Lipa had to endure.
As an offshoot to the pages in the ledger, I made a sign. This was MDF board approximately 2.5 metres wide, with 26 varnished gouache paintings of the selected images from the Garden of Earthly Delights that were selected to make the cipher, with the symbol and Roman alphabet characters laser cut in white gloss acrylic beneath.
