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Sunday 20 March 2011

Artistic Motivation - Awkward but Useful

The Dissertation Series begins its 2nd cycle by responding to the Looking at Self Exhibiton featuring Lucy Jones at the Usher Gallery - Lincoln, January 2007

Awkward but Useful

Untouched by human hand
Kept at bay, always at a distance

Abused by aficionados
Held up on high, for paraplegic parasites
Pillars of establishment
With crooked views on impaired expectations
Sour water
I have drunk from the black bottomless well

Unmoved by human voice, held off
Always some for instance

Down I sink, deeper into the dungeon
Abducted for an exhibition with a catalogue
I am bound with words and pictures
Opened at random
Go away why don't you
Or else move in

Move in much closer
Don't stand, unmoved, at a distance