Pushing Aside the Gates of Darkness
Subject Ideas for Inspiration
lInitial ideas for subject matter focussed on anger at the killers and using ideas based on e.g. the letters IRA in bIRminghAm.
lOther thoughts had strong religious elements in the imagery linking to the Rouault print.
lBroken Glass – shattered and stained.
lStones – referring to themes of paintings I have produced in the past.
lSticks – lashed together into a cross or with thorns.
lThe Rotunda and images of Birmingham.
lEveryday memorials from the gravestone and public sculptures to the flowers tied to trees or railings at scene of roadside death.
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