"When a baby elephant is orphaned on the African savannah, a young boy named Bat takes her home. But Bat's grandmother knows that Meya cannot stay with them for ever; the call of the wild will always be sounding in her soul. Then Bat and his best friend are snatched by soldiers and catapulted into a terrifying new life. Will the bond between Bat and Meya be strong enough to save them?"--Page 4 of cover.
This is the most comprehensive publication on Mat Collishaw's career to date. It features an essay by Sue Hubbard, an interview by Rachel Campbell-Johnston and over 250 colour images spanning more than two decades of work. The artist is a key figure in the important generation of British artists (YBAs) who emerged from Goldsmith's College in the late 1980s. Collishaw's art envelops us in a twilight world poised between the alluring and the revolting, the familiar and the shocking, the poetic and the morbid. With a visual language embracing diverse media, the beauty of Collishaw's work draws us in - seductive, captivating, hypnotic - only to more forcefully repel us as we perceive the darker fantasies within. A repulsion triggered not by what we see, but by our innate response to it. Pornography, the crucifixion, gleaming fairies, syphilitic child prostitutes, bestiality, bondage, addiction, religion, exaltation and despair, even the final hours of a death-row inmate. There is seemingly no taboo left unbroken, no dark corner Collishaw is unwilling to explore - and yet, the work is utterly romantic, exquisitely beautiful, an expression of Collishaw's wish to 'create images that are awe-inspiring'. This book has been published on the occasion of the artist's first ever exhibition of paintings, THIS IS NOT AN EXIT at BlainSouthern, London (14 February - 30 March 2013).
'Time to Change' takes the basic format and principles of 'The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatiu's and allows us to make a retreat without interrupting too much your ordinary daily life and all the things you have to do.