Installation Photography: Monica Perez, from Ancestral Utopias exhibition at the Royal College of Art
Forgotten Dreams
Multi panel installation piece
Each panel 130cm wide an 200-240cm long Linseed oil, chalk, egg yolk, water, with pigments: ochres collected from the Lot in France in the region of Pech Merle and Cougnac caves, ochres collected from villages where witches were accused in England, raw umber greenish, brick dust from a brick my father used to mend the road outside his house, the road he has been mending all of my life, Brick dust from my home village, bone black, manganese black, rust from my London garden, red ochre, French yellow ochre, Found Objects: Chalk from the Thames, Coil of cable from the Thames, Brick from my father's road, bone black, ochres collected from the Lot Landscape, brick dust from a road my father has been fixing all my life, umbers, carbon black,. Painted on Arches huile paper.