Boring boring

Irene Perez Hernandez has definitely hit on something - boredom is all around us. More examples honoured today in St Andrews Street South and the Cattle Market car park. 

Landmarks to Lockdown
 
Caution! 
The warning
might be an emblem 
of community unravelling. 
 
Ready-made blocks,
like blunted senses, 
are banal, 
not even Brutalist.
 
A shed on a bed
of flowers in 
a central space
- assembled in apathy.
  
If no one cares
to collaborate 
the building blocks  
of creativity break.
 
Deborah Bowkis 

Irene Perez Hernandez studied in her native Spain before gaining an Erasmus Grant for an exchange programme at Middlesex University, and going on to study for an MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a sculptor, working in a wide range of media, seeking to redefine the relationship between sculpture and object, and challenge the conventions associated with the discipline. 

​Recent residences include the Guest Studio of Cologne Culture Department. Cologne, Germany in 2019 and Artist in Residence at Taubenturm, Diessen am Ammersee, Germany in 2018. For further details see https://ireneperezhernandez.com Twitter IrenePerezH

Deborah Bowkis has published through competition prizes and in anthologies, including Ink Pantry Sea of Ink and Voices of the Brecks. She currently works as an academic and has taught creative writing courses and workshops in Suffolk. In 2016 she set up a thriving creative writing group, Left to Write, in Bury St. Edmunds. 
​https://greenacrewriters.blogspot.com, http://www.breakingnewground.org.uk