In Concert Catalogue

TREV
CLARKE
It’s always difficult trying to find ideas that resonate with me, but
researching the connection between Aldeburgh Music and Benjamin
Britten led me to the Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo. It seemed a good place to
start for someone with more than a passing interest in creative expression in stone.
The line/fragment that stood out came from sonnet XV. I found these few words
provocative from my point of view as a maker, and so my piece is to an extent a
challenge to them.
I find the creative process both conceptual and physical: for me, whether in music
or in stone, the physical activity of making and the realization of an idea go hand
in hand, rather than the making following the idea.
Britten’s Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo became the seed for this piece, and my
own musing, interests and values have formed the resulting piece of work.
Fragment & Labour
detail | magnesium limestone with oak easel
1200 x 500 x 75 mm
A single line taken from Sonnet XV by Michelangelo
published by Fyfield Books, Carcanet Press
Will have a permissions included, awaiting confirmation.
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