{"id":117,"date":"2022-04-23T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2024-01-21T18:21:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T18:21:56","slug":"christopher-jones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/christopher-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 2.15 pm on Tueday 28th April 2020, he read then turned the page. Two years later he looked back at the words he had underlined &#8220;the trick is to go slowly, more slowly than &#8230; ever &#8230; before&#8221;<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> &#8211; he mulled this over for a few weeks before adding the initial pencil mark to the support&#8217;s surface, a first tentative step of building that would continue for approximately 30 hours &#8211; pencil, eraser and stencil &#8211; he then placed it on the studio wall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A full year later he took it down, sanded part of it away, re-drew, added more, then returned it to its place on the wall &#8211; it is still there, waiting, marking time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just over 80 years ago my father bought 3 postcards of Rome when stationed in Italy towards the end of the war. One I cut into and used in a 12-centimetre square collage around 25 years ago; it took a couple of hours to arrange, rearrange, then fix in position. When taking scalpel and glue to that postcard I was 10 years older than my father was when he bought it, and 3 years had passed since his death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How long did the collage take to make? Can it be dated or timed? Perhaps only meaningfully as connecting the years that were not shared of two overlapping lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McNeill, when challenged in court by John, spoke of the lifetime of experience embodied in &#8220;two days labour&#8221;. Or something like that, so the story goes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am currently holding a conversation with Rembrandt &#8211; via the pages of a 5\u201dx 7\u201d, 1920\u2019s pocketbook monograph found amongst my late mother&#8217;s belongings. Its reproductions in velvety monochrome on thin, friable paper are nothing like Rembrandt&#8217;s paintings, yet they capture something compelling &#8211; both of what we carry with us after a visit to the Rijksmuseum and of the time in which the pocketbook was printed. They tell me something too about my mother.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today I spend time drawing, painting and collaging directly into and onto the page that illustrates Rembrandt&#8217;s 1657 portrait of his son Titus held in the Wallace Collection. Titus died a year later, a year before his father and three hundred and ten years before I was born. Numbers, labour, lifetimes, connections, material; time spent, drawing by drawing, painting by painting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-305 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/files\/2023\/10\/thumbnail_1_Cradle_Chris_Jones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1013\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/files\/2023\/10\/thumbnail_1_Cradle_Chris_Jones.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/files\/2023\/10\/thumbnail_1_Cradle_Chris_Jones-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/files\/2023\/10\/thumbnail_1_Cradle_Chris_Jones-768x569.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cradle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-306 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/files\/2023\/10\/thumbnail_2_Wellspring-2_Chris_Jones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1013\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/files\/2023\/10\/thumbnail_2_Wellspring-2_Chris_Jones.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/files\/2023\/10\/thumbnail_2_Wellspring-2_Chris_Jones-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/files\/2023\/10\/thumbnail_2_Wellspring-2_Chris_Jones-768x569.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wellspring<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Chris Jones<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">4th August 2023<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2.15 pm on Tueday 28th April 2020, he read then turned the page. 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