'Come Buy'

The piece (made during my residency at Watts Gallery) was situated on the grass near the main gallery entrance. It uses three lines from Christina Rossetti’s poem Goblin Market. I have tried here to evoke something of the fascination, movement and menace of the Goblin Men. Squeezing, stretching and curving the words to produce a tantalisingly legible representation of their advance. I created a vector based drawing of the text in order to manipulate it digitally and create an image. This proved to be a fruitful process, opening up new ways to develop the idea and better understand the relationship between text and form. Height 1.6m