Posts Tagged: Women

Reflections exhibition: Public Opening night

On 8 October 2015 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Artists, Cambridge UK, Exhibitions, Women

The Shell by Molly Drake

On 25 September 2015 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Living grows round us
like a skin,
to shut away
the outer desolation

For if we clearly mark
the furthest deep,
we should be dead
long years before the grave

But turning around
within the homely shell
of worry, discontent
and narrow joy,
we grow and flourish
and rarely see
the outside dark
that would
confound our eyes

Some break the shell

I think that they are those
who push their fingers
through the brittle walls
and make a hole

And through this cruel slit
they stare out across
the cinders of the world
with naked eyes

They look both out and in
Knowing themselves
and too much else besides

Everyday, Feelings, Molly Drake, Poetry, This Side and Beyond, Women

To Sophie

On 3 July 2015 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Family history, Feelings, Flowers, Love, Months of the Year, This Side and Beyond, Women

Une vie bien remplie

On 11 June 2015 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Age, Children, Family history, Love, This Side and Beyond, Women

Sloane square, London

On 28 May 2015 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Water, Women

Antonine Maillet et le retour des réfugiés / 1ere et 2 eme parties

On 28 January 2015 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Acadie, Artists, Books, Tales, Voyage, Women

Des Parisiennes

On 23 November 2014 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

France, Paris, Women

to be a Woman – CamIris exhibition 2014

On 20 October 2014 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

My first response to the theme of the exhibition was a blurb book with the story of my life. Being a woman was being me. Then I thought that was too narrow and too personal, so I looked for poems I had written which dealt with the women who had influenced me or been important to me and my role in womanly aspects of my life, motherhood, sisterhood. Later I wrote a poem specifically for the exhibition and what came to light was more a question, when do we have an idea about womanly or manly? Is it a subtle changing idea, can one be “just woman”?

Flots de Mots (2014)
This photograph is of THE RIVER, an installation by the artist Charles Sandison commissioned by the musée du quai Branly, is a work of spectacular video art. Immersed in a river of words that are moving, generated by a network of computers, and projected at varying rhythms and densities for the whole length of the route, visitors will encounter the names of all the peoples and geographic places represented in the museum’s collections. In this way, THE RIVER goes along with the flow of visitors as they ascend right to the source: the collections floor.
… polynésie ravenna slavonska narabat miguel puno nek papantia creuse dogon rajbari nicolas pequetzen rapa pitcalm foukhar botswana pitcairn lipez putau rachaya magdalena santa oblysy sepik san luis piedras quijarro rangamati …

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Posts Tagged: Women

Reflections exhibition: Public Opening night

The Shell by Molly Drake

Living grows round us
like a skin,
to shut away
the outer desolation

For if we clearly mark
the furthest deep,
we should be dead
long years before the grave

But turning around
within the homely shell
of worry, discontent
and narrow joy,
we grow and flourish
and rarely see
the outside dark
that would
confound our eyes

Some break the shell

I think that they are those
who push their fingers
through the brittle walls
and make a hole

And through this cruel slit
they stare out across
the cinders of the world
with naked eyes

They look both out and in
Knowing themselves
and too much else besides

To Sophie

Sophie K L
27 août 1955 – 2 juillet 2012

Une vie bien remplie

Après une vie bien remplie, Maman est morte le 1er Juin 2015

Sloane square, London

Antonine Maillet et le retour des réfugiés / 1ere et 2 eme parties

Des Parisiennes

to be a Woman – CamIris exhibition 2014

No answer to this question, just images. Following a pattern similar to Paul Gauguin’s questions and title “D’où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ?” (Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?).

The first picture is “what was my face like before I was born” a time when no one knew my gender, a time when I wonder what my face was like.

To the second question “Que sommes-nous?” (what are we?) the response would be “Gold and Mine (2013)” : in the foreground a cup, a vessel and in the background eyes and mystery, like the relationship between the unconscious and what we try to offer to the world. The depth mined for gold.

A response less mysterious but not without its ambiguities is “Manly, Womanly and Me (2013)”. Behind the image of me, what image of masculinity and femininity was I given by my parents?. Mars, Venus, Saturn, Artemis, so many ways to weave the masculine and feminine.

Photographs of the exhibition at Atworks, October 11th and 12th

Click on the photo to see the 10 blurb books made for the exhibition

If you want to buy one of the two books I made for the exhibition, go to the page

Posts Tagged: Women

Living grows round us like a skin, to shut away the outer desolation

For if we clearly mark the furthest deep, we should be dead long years before the grave

But turning around within the homely shell of worry, discontent and narrow joy, we grow and flourish and rarely see the outside dark that would confound our eyes

Some break the shell

I think that they are those who push their fingers through the brittle walls and make a hole

And through this cruel slit they stare out across the cinders of the world with naked eyes

They look both out and in Knowing themselves and too much else besides

Sophie K L 27 août 1955 – 2 juillet 2012

Après une vie bien remplie, Maman est morte le 1er Juin 2015

No answer to this question, just images. Following a pattern similar to Paul Gauguin’s questions and title “D’où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ?” (Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?).

The first picture is “what was my face like before I was born” a time when no one knew my gender, a time when I wonder what my face was like.

To the second question “Que sommes-nous?” (what are we?) the response would be “Gold and Mine (2013)” : in the foreground a cup, a vessel and in the background eyes and mystery, like the relationship between the unconscious and what we try to offer to the world. The depth mined for gold.

A response less mysterious but not without its ambiguities is “Manly, Womanly and Me (2013)”. Behind the image of me, what image of masculinity and femininity was I given by my parents?. Mars, Venus, Saturn, Artemis, so many ways to weave the masculine and feminine.

Photographs of the exhibition at Atworks, October 11th and 12th

Click on the photo to see the 10 blurb books made for the exhibition

If you want to buy one of the two books I made for the exhibition, go to the page

Living grows round us
like a skin,
to shut away
the outer desolation

For if we clearly mark
the furthest deep,
we should be dead
long years before the grave

But turning around
within the homely shell
of worry, discontent
and narrow joy,
we grow and flourish
and rarely see
the outside dark
that would
confound our eyes

I think that they are those
who push their fingers
through the brittle walls
and make a hole

And through this cruel slit
they stare out across
the cinders of the world
with naked eyes

They look both out and in
Knowing themselves
and too much else besides

Sophie K L
27 août 1955 – 2 juillet 2012