St Stephens, Hampstead

Marconi Building

Watermans Arms

St Nicholas Pevensey Church East Sussex

St Andrew Bobola Shepherd’s Bush

Ilford Town Hall

STONEWORK
Selbst Vergebens

[Emma to organise these photos when further on with sculpture…]
Alabaster; clear resin/detritus base
Private commission
‘Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens’
Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
From Talbot in Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans), Act III, sc. vi. 180

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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
Wise foundress of the system of the world,
Guide of the stars, who art thou then if thou,
Bound to the tail of folly's uncurbed steed,
Must, vainly shrieking with the drunken crowd,
Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
Accursed, who striveth after noble ends,
And with deliberate wisdom forms his plans!
To the fool-king belongs the world.