A Writer's Reflections on Art Installation "The Blue and The Dim and The Gold" by Artist Jake Levers
On Saturday 3rd March 2018 I attended a Quiet Day at All Saints Emscote, Warwick. The Blue & The Dim & the Gold - art installation by Jake Levers The day was a reflection upon an amazing art installation by Jake Levers called "The Blue and The Dim and The Gold." The installation showed a massive black and brown cloud rising up from the sea, as if viewed from a boat approaching shore. The viewer can interpret this image in many different ways, according to individual llife experiences. For me, it felt like a cloud of noxious fumes, ash and dust and gas spewing into the atmosphere - almost like the horrible aftermath of an oil-spill, billowing out, a poison cloud. It's reaching up and trying to assert itself over the triangle of gold at the top of the image. Whether or not that happens depends on the balance of power between the noxious cloud and the gold. But then I thought: If I am on a boat looking across the gold reflection on the sea to that threaten...