Description
Collecting the work of the years 2008-2015, ‘These Wonderful Spring Days’ is a series of fragments of a creative art practise that began in the late 1970s. It consists predominantly of the descriptions of scenes from imaginary films, photographs, paintings, land and conceptual art, as well as reveries and dreams.
The title comes from the words of a student in Kiev interviewed in early 2014 on that brief period’s optimism for the Ukraine’s then geopolitical realignment towards the West. Only months later the Crimea had been annexed by Russian forces and Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 shot down.
The fragments are presented in the order that they were written. In a method proven time and time again only minimal editing is successfully undertaken, anything more than that and sooner or later the fragment is discarded, or is finally and scrupulously returned to its original state.
In Walter Benjamin’s sense that for writers “finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labour their entire lives” in the writings of Jeremy Stock there are no finished works.
