Sam Austen

Head Floating in a Volcanic Sea (after Blake)

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Year 2021
Medium Acrylic on paper
Dimensions 29.7 x 21 cm

About the work

This is a drawing of a memory of a tiny watercolour by William Blake. A head, or just the head visible of a body, is swirling in a dark ocean, while a volcano has erupted in the background, the ash in the sky creating the darkness of night. I could grasp the deep below the head, which was blind to the dangers underneath – submarine lava flows and fast waters, like a strange dream ocean. Perhaps this is an afterlife of inferno. Or floating severed in our own world, its soul is already in another.

← David Austen

Green Tree 18.11.20

Charles Avery →

Untitled

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