1,200.00€
Oil on canvas: 120cm x 140cm x 3cm
Signed and dated by the artist (reverse)
Catalogue reference: CK-jj016
Blunt your spear and dull your axe.
Turn your dial red to pale.
Open minds, open lest,
you forget to value that which counts.
Open lines, open your chest.
Enmity dissolved in small amounts
leads neither self nor foe to stinging woes.
One step forward—reduce the space.
Remove the common ache of bones.
Take last year’s rival and share their blood.
Use not your words in place of stones.
Aim fresh and share your time in colours new.
The fishmonger and the florist looks to capture the joyous, unguarded moment when two people meet and fail to hide the genuine pleasure of their friendship and shared history.
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Artist’s notes:
I worked, briefly in a fishmongers. A covered market in a market town. I noticed a woman, a neighbor—a good friend of my mother’s working in the self same fish hall. I greeted her with energy and respect. Later, my mother recounted that she had been approached by a woman who worked alongside that neighbor who had witnessed the brief encounter and said how affected she had been, as a bystander to the exchange. A young man offering a moment of genuine respect to an ordinary lady, with an ordinary job. She said she saw truth in my eyes and was touched by the warmth that I had shown her colleague. So often, she said, they were treated with indifference or looked upon with derision where they worked and this momentary encounter, full of fizz and sparkle, between school boy and working mother enduring her daily, wet and malodorous tasks had left her full of adrenaline and renewed positivity. I carry that memory as a simple reminder of how to offer the best of myself to others.
