tom Hackett sculpture
approximately england
17:07:13 – 18:07:13/ 18.07.13/TH
developed for the One hour transsensorial explorations of place and time APT research group event at Ferymynwoods Arts. Invited artists responded to a one hour time period
at a place of their choosing.
My departure point was to spend an hour rowing on a boating lake to generate a subsequent floor work of concrete poetry to examine notions of the construct of England's green urban space.
Co curated by Graham Keddie and Ros Stoddart.
Transcript
approximately England
approximately China
approximately Portland
never seen
a dog by any other name
neither oregon nor bill
long since dead
rowing nowhere and back again
be it river Styx or urban oasis
bereft of rapeseed stench
of the inconvenience twixt city and sea
six pounds an hour
each person
for temporal tranquillity