by martha orbach
Stone lithography
h: 15 w: 24 (cms).
This image is part of an unfinished series of half remembered, half imagined landscapes around the themes of imaginary homelands and hiraeth. Hiraeth is a Welsh word which is difficult to translate - longing, homesickness - for somewhere which may or may not exist, "Hiraeth - the link with the long-forgotten past, the language of the soul... Half forgotten - fraction remembered. It speaks from the rocks, from the earth, from the trees and in the waves. It's always there" Val Bethell. Imaginary Homelands is the title of an essay by Salman Rushdie which has informed the development of the work. It is one of a new series of lithographs – simultaneous explorations of place and process.
by martha orbach
Stone lithography
h: 20 w: 27 (cms).
This image is part of an unfinished series of half remembered, half imagined landscapes around the themes of imaginary homelands and hiraeth. Hiraeth is a Welsh word which is difficult to translate - longing, homesickness - for somewhere which may or may not exist, "Hiraeth - the link with the long-forgotten past, the language of the soul... Half forgotten - fraction remembered. It speaks from the rocks, from the earth, from the trees and in the waves. It's always there" Val Bethell. Imaginary Homelands is the title of an essay by Salman Rushdie which has informed the development of the work. It is one of a new series of lithographs – simultaneous explorations of place and process.