Wellow

'Wellow' (2020)

HD Digital video, 11 mins (EDITED CLIP AVAILABLE)

Quotations extracted from 'East Coker' (1940), 'The Dry Salvages' (1941), and 'Little Gidding' (1942) from 'Four Quartets' by T.S Eliot:

Quote 1: East Coker (l)

In my beginning is my end…

Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,

Are removed, destroyed, restored…

Quote 2: East Coker (I)

Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires,

Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth…

Houses live and die: there is a time for building

And a time for living and for generation

Quote 3: The Dry Salvages (II)

That the past experience revived in the meaning

Is not the experience of one life only

But of many generations – not forgetting

Quote 4: East Coker (V)

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older

The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated

Of dead and living.

Quote 5: East Coker (V)

Not the intense moment

Isolated, with no before and after,

But a lifetime burning in every moment

And not the lifetime of one man only

But of old stones that cannot be deciphered

Quote 6: Little Gidding (V)

A people without history

Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern

Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails

On a winter’s afternoon, in a secluded chapel

History is now and England

Quote 7: Little Gidding (V)

What we call the beginning is often the end

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

The end is where we start from