How to recognise a Widow, Horse in a mirror, Private cup
The equivalent of snow is blossom
Very few of us have windows now. This phrase, spoken with dim despondency by my friend, keeps returning to me broken and tinny. Somewhere on the periphery of Glasgow, the healthcare centre where my friend works was redeveloped last year, resulting in him and his colleagues losing their windows.
gnommero is an ongoing publication assembled by Sarah Tripp. gnommero presents artists and writers responses to Italo Calvino’s series of published lectures, ‘Six Memos for the Next Millennium’. The first issue carries works responding to Calvino’s memo on ‘lightness’ produced by: Jenny Brownrigg, Anca Benera, Neil Davidson, Simone Hutchinson, Conal McStravick, Nathalie de Briey, Chris Walker, Ruth Barkert, Anthony Schrag, Eona McCallum, Becky Beasley, Kathryn Elkin, Darren Rhymes, George Ziffo, Catherine Street, Giles Bailery, S_and O_ and Sarah Tripp.
Sarah Tripp contributed an essay entitled, ‘Very few of us have windows now’ inspired by a conversation with Chin Li and two emblems previously commissioned by the Transmission Gallery.