Jane Perryman: Fixity and Flux Meditations on/in Time
7:15 am December 20th, 2018: a lone figure walks across a soggy meadow in Suffolk, just before dawn. She waits under an oak tree and records:
Civil Twilight (dawn) 07:25
Bands of broken cloud,
Still, windless
Woodpecker undulating
She returns to the same spot a little later to greet the rising sun as day breaks. She breathes in the fresh, chilled morning air, absorbs the scents and sounds as night turns to day and the sun makes a dilute appearance. She takes photographs looking out at the low hill that rises in the east and makes word drawings, capturing the moment, imprinting it on her experiential memory.
Sunrise 08:06
Peach Orange Apricot glowing
Contrails like shooting stars
Ceramist, writer, traveler, yoga instructor Jane Perryman walks back to her home and studio, invigorated by her encounter with the cosmos. This oak tree at 52 degrees north is the rendezvous point for her tryst with the sun. For a whole year, she has walked up to that tree, five times a day, on a Thursday, every two weeks, to keep her date with Mithra. Whatever the weather, Jane says, I spent many hours there; the structured repetition enabling me to observe and record the gradual changing landscape of light, weather, seasonal rhythms, animal, bird, and insect life.
Time, the great cyclical equalizer of the East − Maha Kaal − has preoccupied Jane for a while. And this has found. This installation will be exhibited at the Ruthin Centre for Applied Arts in Wales in 2022.
