a robe

“My Glorious Robe they took off me
Which in their love they had wrought me” – The Hymn of the Robe of Glory

A folio of 13 plates, from 2019, about a robe. Photomontages of clay sculptures and watercolours, with associated word pieces. For some background to the characters involved see the characters page.

(Click * on a heading below to open the related word piece.)

1. generative *

Plate 1

2. christabel disrobed *

Plate 2

3. christabel‘s sorrow *

Plate 2

4. the encounter of jefferson and the couriers *

Plate 3

5. bearing *

Plate 4

6. carriage *

Plate 4

7. breath *

Plate 5

8. christabel attends iosefina *

Plate 8

9. jeselmina grieving *

Plate 6 (Jeselmina Grieving)

10. iosefina longing *

Plate 7

11. return *

Plate 9

12. tenebrae *

Plate 12 (Tenebrae)

13. queen of the arc *

Plate 13 (Stones of Adamant)