3 scenes from every day life
A collaboration with Jonathan Lewis, whose three poems - The baby who
made those around him hate, Yesterday, I think, and The Old Lady
inspired Becalalis Brodskis, a, to create a series of images around
them. It is a book that shocks and appals, but the scenes that it
describes have their own beauty, and many people, whilst they know they
should not, laugh, when they read it. “The book’s theme is common - a
world in which violence is everyday and loneliness is endemic,”
comments co-creator Jonathan Lewis. “The book’s effect is far from
everyday; on the one hand, the controlled blast of text and images
makes the effete lyricism of many poems seem anachronistic and
detached. On the other, the book is full of sympathy for the victims it
describes. Even if they wanted to make one, there will be no second
edition. The original printing plates have been cut up and made into
little sculptures of characters from the book.
