"You are an ocean wave, my love,
Crashing at the bow."
Sixth form summer
art project. Sketch the places you go and the people you see. Well, I’m not
really one for summer. Or going places. Or seeing people. So I decided to spend
a day freeze-framing the ‘Martha’s Harbour’ video and drawing that instead.
Which
resulted in a pad bursting with images of a mournful Pre-Raphaelite-style woman
standing around a windswept harbour. Oh, and lighthouses. Lots of lighthouses. Surely
that’s everyone’s idea of a great summer.
My art teacher seemed typically bemused (this was before he finally lost all patience with me on seeing my volcanic-melting-men masterpiece). And I decided this was brilliant fun and immediately began a series of charcoals based on The Sisters of Mercy’s ’Dominion’ video.
My art teacher seemed typically bemused (this was before he finally lost all patience with me on seeing my volcanic-melting-men masterpiece). And I decided this was brilliant fun and immediately began a series of charcoals based on The Sisters of Mercy’s ’Dominion’ video.
Unfortunately, the original video for 'Martha's Harbour' doesn't appear to be on YouTube, so the above is a live performance from TOTP. I resisted the cruel temptation to include All About Eve's appearance from the week before when they couldn't hear the backing track and thus sat lifeless on stage for half the song. Yes, go have a look for it.
'Dominion' is the greatest music video ever made. Fact. We'll come back to it again in another post.
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