Words for titles (unused, some borrowed)
BY LORNA MACINTYRE
All Growth is a Series of Movements 1
Gestures
Stone Quartet
Hock and claret glasses, shimmering, a spiny shell, where it concerted, mirrored, bronze with sunnier bronze 2
Fir Moment
Open Eye and Shut Eye
Music, Violets and the Letter S 3
Storms as He Walks
Night Blue Fruit 2
The Finches
Imagiste
Speaking in Tongues
Carrington – upstairs under CAR
Objects in Relation
Eidolon
Extra Flat
Ostranenie
Night-Black and Paper-White 4
Notes in Silver
Sun Stone
December
Ultra-Thin
Where I am is Here 5
Rain, Hail, Thunder, Lightning
Without Flux
Stone-Like-Thing
Tropic of Capricorn
Arabesque
Shadow’s Prose Paragraphs
Correspondences
Oneiric
Pyramid Rock
1 from ‘The Secret Life of Plants’, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird (1973)
2 from ‘Ulysses’, James Joyce, 1922
3 title chapter from ‘A Room With a View’, E M Forster, 1908
4 from ‘Lee Miller’, Carolyn Burke, 2007
5 title of a Margaret Tait work, 1964
Lorna Macintyre is a Scottish artist who lives and works in Glasgow. She uses a broad spectrum of influential touchstones in her work, from poetry and literature to archaeology and symbolism.