AFRESH 2011

Afresh 2011

Made for the 10th Anniversary Exhibition "Laisee" Koru Contemporary Arts, Hong Kong

The Trees by Phillip Larkin

The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax an spread,
Their greeness a certain kind of grief.

Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written in rings of grain.

Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

This work was developed as a response to the Laisee Envelopes given at Chinese New Year. I was drawn to the richness of their gold embossed decoration and sought to bring a similar visual experience to the glass panels.