Oliver Brookes
Marchmont Sunrise , 2022
Screenprint
Paper size 38.5 x 28.5
Image size 15.2 x 16.6
Image size 15.2 x 16.6
Edition of 24
I am a bit ashamed of liking the baronial adornments of Marchmont tenements, obsessively drawing the step gables and watching the low sun on the honeyed sandstone. I picture myself,...
I am a bit ashamed of liking the baronial adornments of Marchmont tenements, obsessively drawing the step gables and watching the low sun on the honeyed sandstone. I picture myself, rather, listening to Arvo Part in Mies Van de Rohe’s Farnsworth House secluded in the autumn flood water of Illinois. Maybe in making these print studies of Marchmont I will work out why they make such an inspirational place to live, apart from all the coffee and bike shops.
