Some photos of a piece I am currently working on. I live in a terraced
house with the pavement right outside. One evening I was pulling the
curtains, and outside were two young skateboarders, probably aged 13 or
so. They were sharing a happy,
yet chaste embrace. A few days later
I decided to sketch this. During the sketch, the boy developed a big
woolly rasta hat, the girl a hijab. I started thinking about Romeo and
Juliet, the Montagues and the Capulets, Joseph and Mary, Christians and
Muslims.....I hoped the image might convey something universal about
warring factions, and love. I decided to call it Joseph and Juliet. It's
carved out of a very old oak joist, and looks a bit "lumpy" in
progress. The piece is nearly finished now, so I shall post a picture of
it completed soon. It would have been finished earlier had it not been
for the fantastic heatwave which drew me outside, to the beach, the
garden, the hills...
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