Liz Noble to Niall Hobhouse
OK agreed, spikiness not problem (wrong word) but characteristic. A rocking vessel, and a network of blood vessels? Some greedy parasitic thing, the clotting colours of old brick, engulfment, something trying to escape - hmmm….. The temporal issue is another wonderful angle. Experiments in plants notorious for growth rates. Cannot get shot of a particular fantasy - a whole grove of Mount Etna broom. Feel the idea of growth from seed to be especially apt in this test-tube situation. Wonder if it would be possible to engineer an element of azure delphiniums… (some trickery poss. required to retard flowering times - pinching?)..