BOXES : CONTAINERS : PLACES OF SAFETY
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New Boxes for Thoresby - 2014
Boxes are made to be opened. But sometimes they resist and choose instead to keep their secret. They can contain nothing but a blank white inner skin, or reveal a picture; they can harbour sound or silence; they can be buildings or ships or walnuts. Boxes enclose meaning, they show off their character on the outer decoration but, like people, can be quite a different matter when you look inside. They can make me think of the calm after the storm; of life returning to balance; of chaos and defeat turning into powerful new resurgence and liberated life. Or they can be the space I retreat into when there is nowhere else I can go to find me.