Title | Ffynnon (Creation) | Description: | A slumped oval disk engraved with the poem "Ffynnon" by the Welsh poet Menna Elfyn, and a glass disk engraved with a verse translation in English |
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 | This image shows the Welsh text, engraved in a formal style on an oval slumped panel approximately 18cm x 25cm. The slumped piece of glass is ina simple seed shape, just big enough to contain the poem so that it is legible.
Jacqueline Allwood thanks Menna Elfyn for her kind permission to reproduce her poem on this work |
 | With this disk I have been much freer in my interpretation of how I placed the poem, as it is an English translation. In the exhibition, I have suspended the disk inside a bicycle tyre, and one looks through to the rolling landscape beyond.
Jacqueline Allwood thanks Menna Elfyn for her kind permission to reproduce her poem on this work |
I came across this beautiful poem by the Welsh poetess Menna Elfyn whilst working on a project on Migration for the British Council in Brussels. It is about the opposition and the eventual love-union of the two primitive elements Earth and Water. I chose to interpret the poem on the glass in this manner. I engraved the original poem in Welsh on a slumped panel in the form of a simple seed, using the exact format that the poet used. For the second panel, which is a circular clear glass disk, some 60cm in diameter, I wrote the English translation which I felt was one step removed from the original, and therefore I felt free to interpret the positioning of the poem in a more personal manner, to cope with the fact that I was writing it on a disk, and not a rectilinear space. |
This work has been exhibited at the Sculpture in the Garden exhibition from 4 June 2007 to 28 July 2007 |
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