Miranda Elliott

I planted a stony garden to defend the porch

Painting
2023
Oil on Canvas
42" x 54"
The title of this painting is drawn from an untitled poem by the filmmaker Derek Jarman. It is included in his collection of diaries from 1989-1990 published under the name "Modern Nature." to whom it may concernin the dead stones of a planetno longer remembered as earthmay he decipher this opaque hieroglyphperform an archeology of soulon these precious fragmentsall that remains of our vanished dayshere — at the sea’s edgeI have planted a stony gardendragon tooth dolmen spring upto defend the porchsteadfast warriors

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I planted a stony garden to defend the porch
I planted a stony garden to defend the porch

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Miranda Elliott

Drawing and Painting

“In my practice I engage with the ‘vital materiality’ of the inanimate world, and the porous intersection between living and non-living. In doing so I ask: “how do you find meaning in precariousness,...” [More]