Who blows the horn?

8 legs 

and a torso split unevenly

Into two swollen pods

the cautious stride first

sends  word to all limbs

fear or courage

each new word

Images and pressure

downloads 

but who blows the horn

Winged angel buoyed by dense 

clouds

who will hold us when we

obediently head your call

who blows the horn

not knowing

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The works in this show are a meditation on the rhythms of drawing, revealing itself in gouges, ink scrawls, and pooling glazes, across two materially distinct but overlapping aspects of the artist’s practice.

Derived from a poem created during the ritual of a tarot circle, the exhibition’s title Who Blows The Horn? ruminates on the process of becoming and being in relation to self or community, echoed in the chimera ink drawing and the self birthing legs from the large-scale clay painting with a title that includes their childhood phone number, Home - 0208 534 5612. Collings-James traverses a precarious edge, reckoning with the seeking of justice and knowledge, by way of an evocative symbology.