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Pharmacopoeia - A Dungeness Notebook (Paperback)
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Pharmacopoeia - A Dungeness Notebook (Paperback)
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List price R395
Loot Price R358
Discovery Miles 3 580
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'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood
and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the
wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a
therapy and a pharmacopoeia.' In 1986 artist and filmmaker, Derek
Jarman, bought Prospect Cottage, a Victorian fisherman's hut on the
desert sands of Dungeness. It was to be a home and refuge for
Jarman throughout his HIV diagnosis, and it would provide the stage
for one of his most enduring, if transitory projects - his garden.
Conceived of as a 'pharmacopoeia' - an ever-evolving circle of
stones, plants and flotsam sculptures all built and grown in spite
of the bracing winds and arid shingle - it remains today a site of
fascination and wonder. Pharmacopoeia brings together the best of
Derek Jarman's writing on nature, gardening and Prospect Cottage.
Told through journal entries, poems and fragments of prose, it
paints a portrait of Jarman's personal and artistic reliance on the
space Dungeness offered him, and shows the cycle of the years spent
there in one moving collage. '[Derek] made of this wee house, his
wooden tent pitched in the wilderness, an artwork - and out of its
shingle skirts, an ingenious garden - now internationally
recognised. But, first and foremost, the cottage was always a
living thing, a practical toolbox for his work' Tilda Swinton, from
her Foreword
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