To Glean 2020

Wall hung sculptural collage made from gleaned material man made and organic over my life time.

United Colours of Memory – To Glean 2020
Wall hung mixed-media sculpture

Made in England, logo from childhood box of Christmas tree candles – anachronistic green.

My grandmother’s first blood donor card – vintage accountant red
Three-generation, inherited Lexicon box- old gold

My father-in-law’s discarded shirt, taken to India - modified for painting, witness of adventure – peachy neon-bright pinkish-red

One of my sketchbooks, the one with (in retrospect) unforgivably bad drawings – judgemental black.

The box which contained the forty-five, year-old scent of the perfume I wore in the delivery room at birth of daughter Rebecca -Taupe, long before I knew it’s proper name.

Pieces of salt-dried plastic from a Caribbean beach in sugary ice cream colours.

The cover of a (still) favourite Iris Murdoch novel - dark velvety turquoise.
One of my diaries, herringbone – with the contents I had to get rid of – anonymous grey.

My other diary (the boring one) with gorgeous patent leather cover – ripe fern green

Mobile phone case, rubber – delicious vulgar pink

My best wool jumper, accidently shrunk in the wash and then mourned over – mauvey-blue

Small section of failed painting, too beautiful to throw away – ancient green and gold.

A favourite family tablecloth that we ate and argued across over many summers, repurposed into curtains to keep the sun out of the bedroom - as many colours as Joseph’s coat, but faded.

The inner workings of my most comfortable bra – functional, slippery, man-made black

My ancient, body-worn leather handbag, latterly sculpture tool bag and now deconstructed as wall art - safe brown

The last jumper my mother ever knitted - Arran - full-cream ivory

Ruth Geldard

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