{"id":397,"date":"2012-07-15T01:06:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T00:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/gary\/?p=397"},"modified":"2021-01-14T21:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:14:29","slug":"dove-cottage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/07\/15\/dove-cottage\/","title":{"rendered":"Dove Cottage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Commission For <a href=\"https:\/\/wordsworth.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Wordsworth Trust <\/a><br><em>15 July 2012<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Beyond_Words.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Research Report &#8211; Beyond Words<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smallYellow.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"403\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smallYellow.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/index.php\/2012\/07\/15\/dove-cottage\/smallyellow\/\" class=\"wp-image-403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smallYellow.jpg 288w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smallYellow-144x300.jpg 144w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smallYellow-192x400.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/RINGfinalText3-730x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"402\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/RINGfinalText3.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/index.php\/2012\/07\/15\/dove-cottage\/ringfinaltext3\/\" class=\"wp-image-402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/RINGfinalText3-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/RINGfinalText3-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/RINGfinalText3-768x1077.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/RINGfinalText3-285x400.jpg 285w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/RINGfinalText3-508x712.jpg 508w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/RINGfinalText3.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was invited by Dove Cottage (the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere in the Lake District) to make new work in 2012 to be placed in the exhibition gallery alongside the Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. For this&nbsp;<em>commission<\/em>, I created six new works, all small in scale (no larger than the pages of the Journal itself). An analysis of the value of these works in helping visitors to engage with the manuscripts in the Wordsworth Museum was published by the Arts Council in 2012 and can be found as a downloadable PDF on the right hand side of this page (see pages 24 and 32 &#8211; 36 in this report).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the&nbsp;<strong><em>The Wind Seized Our Breath<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(below), I play with an imagined relationship between the Romantic poets, contemporary concrete poets and the poetry of the Far East. I have \u2018replaced\u2019 the calligraphy of the Far Eastern poets with the individual, expressive, letters of Dorothy Wordsworth whilst maintaining the vertical form of the Japanese or Chinese poem, employing colour as an added emotional tool to highlight the feelings expressed in DW\u2019s prose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The text consists of words found in DW\u2019s journal entry for 15th&nbsp;April 1802:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gowbarrow<br>Misty morning<br>Daffodils<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thursday 15th April 1802<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wind seized our breath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the&nbsp;<strong><em>15th April 1802&nbsp;<\/em>(1)<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong><em>15th April 1802<\/em>&nbsp;(2)<\/strong>, I have employed a more straightforward approach, working directly and intuitively with pastel over and into the words on the page. Here I am also responding to the place the words describe \u2013 places I have walked many times and understand well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"913\" src=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smalldaff.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"400\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smalldaff.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/index.php\/2012\/07\/15\/dove-cottage\/smalldaff\/\" class=\"wp-image-400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smalldaff.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smalldaff-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smalldaff-263x400.jpg 263w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smalldaff-508x773.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smalldaffoils.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"401\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smalldaffoils.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/index.php\/2012\/07\/15\/dove-cottage\/smalldaffoils\/\" class=\"wp-image-401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smalldaffoils.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smalldaffoils-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smalldaffoils-265x400.jpg 265w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smalldaffoils-508x767.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The print&nbsp;<strong><em>The Ring<\/em><\/strong>, is related to the famous page from Dorothy Wordsworth\u2019s journal of the 4th&nbsp;October 1802. In it, she describes her feelings on the morning of her brother William\u2019s wedding. I have focused here on two things. Firstly, on the parts of the text we&nbsp;<strong><em>can<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;see. When Dorothy says that she \u2018<strong>lay in stillness, neither hearing or seeing anything<\/strong>\u2019, what was she thinking? However, two sentences have been heavily crossed out. We are not sure who crossed them out, or why and there is some dispute as to what the words crossed out say. This is the second focus of the print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the full journal entry, which runs over a number of pages, Dorothy describes a series of important, life changing events alongside her usual direct observations. In the two prints here below (<strong><em>4th October 1802 (1)<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong><em>4th October 1802 (2)<\/em><\/strong>, I have tried to capture something of this ambiguity, working spontaneously and directly with pastels over a printed image of the manuscript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"511\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/theringlight_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"399\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/theringlight_0.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/index.php\/2012\/07\/15\/dove-cottage\/theringlight_0\/\" class=\"wp-image-399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/theringlight_0.jpg 511w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/theringlight_0-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/theringlight_0-256x400.jpg 256w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/theringlight_0-508x795.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"566\" src=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smallringcrop.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"398\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smallringcrop.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.eu\/index.php\/2012\/07\/15\/dove-cottage\/smallringcrop\/\" class=\"wp-image-398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smallringcrop.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smallringcrop-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smallringcrop-283x400.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"http:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Further-information-about-this-commission.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Further information about this commission<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commission For The Wordsworth Trust 15 July 2012 I was invited by Dove Cottage (the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere in the Lake District) to make new work in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/feature_dc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}