Unsavoury Fortunes

Sarah Sabin's edition of four small sculptures acknowledge the 'dubious legacies' of many fine buildings and stately piles. They have been placed outside houses on Crown Street, Guildhall Street, Honey Hill and The Great Churchyard. The response is by Natalie Low. 

Then, as now, I lay on the bed
My face against the sheet
Remembering time and heat and love
And days of sugarsweet.
 
A garden party, summer day,
All stained with sounds of June,
I snuck into the cool to eat
The sugar from the spoon.
 
I fell in love and so let in 
That fickle butterfly
Whose pink tongue pierced my skin to suck
The honey-sugar dry.
 
While outside years were going by
The child was inside still
And always learning newer ways
Of sugaring the pill.
 
And now I’m far too old to care 
What’s lying underneath.
I used to fret, but now I don’t, 
That sugar rots the teeth.
 
So now, as then, I lie in bed
My face against the sheet
Remembering time and heat and love
And days of sugarsweet.
 
Natalie Low

Sarah Sabin is an artist and educator living and working  in Colchester. My work has been concerned for a number of years with 'digging about under the surface.' I interpret and reimagine places and their histories, through making, public participation, and site specific projects. I use a wide range of media in two and three dimensions. I don't like to pin myself down to a particular material, often choosing what feels to me, most appropriate or with a connection to a particular  site. 

Sarah studied BA  Fine Art at  Sunderland University and has an MA fine art at NUA - Norwich University of the Arts. Previous Commissions, exhibitions and residencies include Firstsite, Colchester; the Foundling Museum, London; UCL institute of archaeology;, and a grove residency. Twitter @sarahesabin Instagram @sarahesabin www.sarahsabin.co.uk

Natalie Low enjoys putting words on paper and believes that everyone has a book of some sort inside them. She has published two chapbooks, Dementia (2015) and School Run (2017). She contributed to groving: Acts of Resistance in 2019 and is a regular contributor to CollectConnect exhibitions, both as a writer and artist/maker. Instagram nat.low