War

Soon after I started working with archive material, the theme of war began to appear in drawings. ’Angel,’ the earliest, was a response to an engraving of tunnels under Kings Cross Station from the 19th century Journal ‘The Builder.’ I wanted to tell a story about time and travel. Instead, an image of Auschwitz emerged, followed by the figures of two Angels. Non fiction books about World War Two and the holocaust were on my mind – and William Blake, with his reference to the power and protection of Angels. Living through politically unstable and secular times, I long for a more stable  and peaceful world. Memories of earlier wars, genocide and repression are brought back by social media coverage of conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine. We are haunted by imagery of people walking across desolate landscapes with children, carrier bags, animals. Where is home for them?