✨ Treasure Hoard: The Solomonic Columns of Clifton House, King's Lynn
It was a merchant's house, founded in the C13th, and has grown organically ever since then.
It was a merchant's house, founded in the C13th, and has grown organically ever since then.
Holiness is in the the earth-song of the peeling paint and the arborescent echo from the fissured faces, and sanctity is in the rhythm of the truss, the pattern in the bracing and the un-mappable outpourings of human endeavour held within these walls.
Holiness is in the the earth-song of the peeling paint and the arborescent echo from the fissured faces, and sanctity is in the rhythm of the truss, the pattern in the bracing and the un-mappable outpourings of human endeavour held within these walls.
My own work is an aggregate attempt at trying to untangle the conflicts that arise inside my head by finding hope in the pattern of buildings, places and humans around me.
As I walk through the streets of Lynn, it feels as though a switch in my brain has been turned on.
A nod to Banister Fletcher: The Foliate Head
A nod to Banister Fletcher: The Pelican Symbol
With the passage of time, what struck me most about these celestial renderings was the feeling of intimacy that emerged - a felt sense of presence, or maybe, even a glimpse of heaven on earth.
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