Anthony Stevens British, b. 1978
Threshold, 2020
Hand embroidery
50 x 30 cm
Copyright The Artist
This piece came from hearing and reading the phrase ‘Everything hinges on what we do next’, on various news sites. It is true, it does. We are currently in a...
This piece came from hearing and reading the phrase ‘Everything hinges on what we do next’, on various news sites.
It is true, it does. We are currently in a liminal space, a place of suspension that will pass, just as the virus eventually will and all the rainbows in windows with it; rainbows which I feel are representative of a specific set of circumstances and factors, just as the rainbows we see in the sky are.
At some point, we will all have to open our doors again and step across our thresholds and out into the world. Will the time in isolation have affected us, changed us and our world view in any significant way? Will we view our lives and the very act of living differently after being so vividly confronted with it’s finite nature on such a mass scale?
The first act of opening our doors after lockdown, the hinges moving, being set into action by our intent to step back into the world will be a profoundly significant one. That intent and it’s motivations will dictate what happens next for us as individuals and the world as a whole.
It is true, it does. We are currently in a liminal space, a place of suspension that will pass, just as the virus eventually will and all the rainbows in windows with it; rainbows which I feel are representative of a specific set of circumstances and factors, just as the rainbows we see in the sky are.
At some point, we will all have to open our doors again and step across our thresholds and out into the world. Will the time in isolation have affected us, changed us and our world view in any significant way? Will we view our lives and the very act of living differently after being so vividly confronted with it’s finite nature on such a mass scale?
The first act of opening our doors after lockdown, the hinges moving, being set into action by our intent to step back into the world will be a profoundly significant one. That intent and it’s motivations will dictate what happens next for us as individuals and the world as a whole.
