Lucy Large
I’ve always been struck by footpath signage – positioned to help hikers find their way, but also curiously a painterly activity in the depths of nature. As a child I used to dream that my job as an adult might, one day, be to traverse the land on foot, daubing a yellow, blue or sometimes a shockingly pink square on trees as I went. I also admired the restraint of these marks – what would have happened if the painter went rogue and decided to claim more of the woods for colouring?
With no desire for vandalism, I do want to have a conversation with the woods, though. A joyful conversation in colour, a sort of grateful call and response to the vivid technicolour of Spring this year. Continuing my use of paper for wrapping objects over the past few years, this is a deliberately playful and intuitive interaction. It’s also an intimate and meditative conversation – a considered way of exploring trees I’ve walked past many times. Once photographed, the paper is then removed and traces of the conversation between me and the trees are purely memory.
Blue Conversations
Pink Conversations
Yellow Conversations
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