TOLLE LEGE – ST AUGUSTINE AND A LOBSTER IN BED.
Lime wood carving, church kneeler, 1.7 x 1.2 x 1.2 metres. 2025.
I had the idea to make a lime wood carving of St Augustine in bed with a lobster. I spend six months making the piece and then another six months wondering why I had made it.
Rotate video in photo studio.
Detail:
Publicity post card drop route through Bath.
Ledger video.
Ledger concordance pages.
The ledger Concordance is available to purchase for £30 in the shop.
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.
