Sanatorium Philip Rush

Sanatorium Philip RushA young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an 80 inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the intrusion of disability; a trip hazard in the middle of an unsuitable room, slowly deflating and in constant danger of falling apart. Sanatorium moves through contrasting spaces bathtub to thermal pool, land to

Hussain al-Mozany [A Wall Between Two Darknesses] by Balqis

If at the end of his life Boccaccio returned to the Dantesque vision of things (in his Life of Dante and commentary on the first seventeen cantos of the Divina Commedia)

Described as ‘accessible and dynamic’

Some forget what they are hiding from

memory and autobiography

on his last home visit

John Lennon’s tooth

and what can be made to

along with Ted Hughes

not one word in our mouths

and portrait poems of greedy politicians

sound to sense