Holding Time
Currently on display in the Octagonal Exhibition Space
Six months in the making, Holding Time is a body of work that expresses Hape Kiddle’s reverence for the material and the natural environment, and at the same time it’s a reflection on the human condition. ‘We are not what we were. Not the person we were ten years ago, not even yesterday. Nothing that grows can ever be the same again. So be gentle, to ourselves... and others.’
Here
There is stillness
And quiet
In this grain
Is the history of the world
In my hands is kinship
I am holding time...
"I like the idea of little vessels to catch rain. Symbols of renewal, hope, and a reminder that beneath the daily human noise we are nature, wrapped up into the same needs as everything else, responsive to the cycle of this earth..."
"How strange it sometimes feels to be, Whittling these days away.
Doing something that makes so much sense ( to me ), and no sense at all. Searching out the dance of movement, in an object that is still..."
"The time to grow a tree big, time to carve and make rope, the time to weave this pieces narritive together. The time to grow to understand your mother too is treelike....standing strong, quietly witnessing, giving life..."
