GERALD LAING

Selected Citations and Comments

I appropriated some old shelving I had found and also some of the rough laths used to control the shifting of the sands on the beach, and lengths of the amazing convoluted vines which clambered over, weighed down, and dangled from the wind-stunted trees of the peninsula. With these unlikely materials I continued my two themes of the time, which were reductive distillations of two earlier images - the woman with long hair, and the reclining figure in an enclosed space. I used the vines as a baroque frame for two of these; the vines seemed to me to be reminiscent of that antler furniture which was popular in the nineteenth century.

Gerald Laing, 'Gerald Laing: An Autobiography', unpublished manuscript, 2011, ch.42