The first time I read Hilda Morley's "That Bright Grey Eye" I didn't like that the text focused so much on colour. I never thought about it, but when I read literature I like images of colour created indirectly. For example, if I say "morning in an autumn alley" - I imagine my gold and red in the atmosphere, but when I am told «The grey sky, lighter & darker greys, lights between & delicate lavenders also blue-greys in smaller strokes, & swashes of mauve-grey on the Hudson» Poetry Foundation. That Bright Grey Eye, By Hilda Morley, New York, 1977 [online] At: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56809/that-bright-grey-eye (Accessed 21.11.2023) - someone told me what the Hudson should be like. And that's a lot of things...
But then the text introduced me to a certain image... and it was this image that I tried to portray in the hour allotted to me.
Since in my current practice, I am experimenting with text, I tried to choose words that in my opinion would express my feelings from Morley's work.
I took the colour scheme from such a detailed description of colour in the poem, and I decided to attribute the haze and strokes that connect everything to Turner's method while changing them to the context of asphalt in September and a claw scratch - referring to the text.
I walked down the Bank Street in New York using Google Maps and noticed that my wooden elements would fit into my work one way or another since there was some construction going on along the entire street.
At the same time, I understand the cost of apartments in this area and shopping at a local store, which Morley writes about is quite an expensive pleasure. This chic is opposed by cheap materials, reorienting the viewer's attention from the external to the mundane.
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