{"id":788,"date":"2017-05-08T12:44:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T11:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethanlloydworthington.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2017-12-08T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:54:32","slug":"fragments-shell-lit-siambr-at-sidney-cooper-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanlloydworthington.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Fragments, Bethan Lloyd Worthington | Shell-Lit Siambr Exhibition Publication"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Specially commissioned by Sidney Cooper Gallery for the solo exhibition Shell-Lit Siambr<\/a>. The accompanying publication, designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio, is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Go and kneel with your face in the recess of the tomb and say \u201cShell-Lit Siambr\u201d. It will be like being told by someone else. It will surprise you right in the head.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to realise that it is not Simon saying it; it cannot be because his head was removed by eight blows to the neck.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Simon of Sudbury\u2019s tomb, Canterbury Cathedral<\/p><\/div>\n

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Meeting bees halfway<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019re lavender milk and marble<\/span><\/p>\n

The bees are hot incavernous<\/span><\/p>\n

Get clean and put on white linen<\/span><\/p>\n

Sticking drizzle lashed through the air to the borders<\/span><\/p>\n

Syrup pulls off the fur from the bees and the hairs from your arms and the pollen and the talc<\/span><\/p>\n

Cool surfaces slip past each other at the doorway<\/span><\/p>\n

Humming, in heat-cracking grasses<\/span><\/p>\n

When you wash you move your hands down over your head two times like a veil<\/span><\/p>\n

Your heartbeat slows<\/span><\/p>\n

So when you come to them your presence is dialed down you are barely beneath and you are not where they are<\/span><\/p>\n

You are a cold spot in the garden, no more of interest to bees than a statue or a ghost<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reference Caves<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spider, pool, Monkey, headtorch. A really stupid thing to do.<\/p>\n

Anywhere, but probably in the north of England. Packed lunch of sandwich and a carton. Waterproof mildew. Semi-precious stones.<\/p>\n

Great Great Aunt Nin proprietress of the silver rings at Chwarel Hen Llanfair Slate Cavern.<\/p>\n

Radiocarbon data on lynx bones found in two caves in the Craven area of North Yorkshire show that lynx were still present in the early medieval era, just 1500 years ago.<\/p>\n

Philip Crow will electrify Wookey Hole. \u201che\u2019s always going down there – with his electricity. This is the end; the end of all those lovely stalactite caves that Clement of Alexandria talks about!\u201d John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance.<\/p>\n

Object C.64-1939, V&A collection – What if I say this is a cave?<\/p>\n

Echo Siambr of the tiny female shamans. Echo co co – ochre hands to the wall.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Bee bole <\/span><\/p>\n

A recess in a wall for them to live in here\u2019s How To put a skep on the ledge of the hollow<\/span><\/p>\n

Bee bowl <\/span><\/p>\n

A small soapy pond for them to die in I\u2019m sorry but there are instructions on the internet<\/span><\/p>\n

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Clothes were put to dry and bleach on the mound.<\/span><\/p>\n

The achievements of the Black Prince were hung above the tomb.<\/span><\/p>\n

Get clean and put on white linen<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bleach, 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

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