The Zen Bruiser

Artist Graham Ensor on Flickr.

Artist photographer, Christopher Mear, in his terrific show ‘DISINTEGRATING HISTORIES’ at Snibston Discovery Museum.

SNIBSTON PRESERVES - Paul Conneally 2011

From ‘Spoil Heap Harvest’ for Transform Snibston. A series of works exploring art, artefact, product, space, place, time and identity.

ONE UPRIGHT ARM

We move together along the disused railway track
towards the top of the Swannington Incline.

“Don’t look the dog in the eyes. He don’t like it”

one upright arm
sustains the cheek
come walk with me

when things go wrong
there’s always the hedgerow

Paul Conneally 2011 

From ‘Health Walk’ with Nita Pearson ‘Whitwick to Swannington and Back’ May 2011

Previous post in this series “So Looked Cecilia’

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Notes

The line:

‘one upright arm sustains the cheek’

Is a fragment from “HOW RICH THAT FOREHEAD’S CALM EXPANSE” by William Wordsworth. Wordsworth tells us that the poem HOW RICH THAT FOREHEAD’S CALM EXPANSE was inspired by a print at Coleorton Hall, North West Leicestershire. Mrs Wordsworth’s impression was that HOW RICH THAT FOREHEAD’S CALM EXPANSE was also written at Coleorton Hall despite William’s note that it was written at Rydal Mount in the Lake District.

Romantic Poetry and The National Curriculum for English

the gallery is closed
but art is not

from the worlds first 100 verse twenga by Gavin Wade and Paul Conneally

Ventilation Dress (detail)
Barber Swindells 2012
For TRANSFORM SNIBSTON
Snibston Discovery Park

Ventilation Dress by artists Barber Swindells at Snibston Discovery Museum

Hands On
Paul Conneally
2012

Snibston Discovery Park

A woman singing on Singstar in ‘cultural forager’ artist Paul Conneally’s gallery exhibition The Blind Fiddler - Home Entertainment 1806 - 2012 at Snibston Discovery Museum.