Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Miranda Elliott

I planted a stony garden to defend the porch

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