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'Only connect' is a much-cited phrase that ends E. M. Forster’s novel 'Howards End'. In the novel, which explores the theme of fragments becoming whole, the character Margaret Schlegel implores:
'Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion without it. We are meaningless fragments, half monk, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into man.' (Chapter 22, 'Howards End')
Through referencing Forster's novel, Finlay's 'Only Connect' transforms a familiar object into a poetic thought.
Title
Only Connect
Date
2008
Medium
Northumbrian limestone
Measurements
H 392 x W 111 x D 47 cm;
H 57.2 x W 24 x D 26 cm
Accession number
JAC20086
Acquisition method
site-specific acquisition
Work type
Sculpture
Jupiter Artland
Bonnington House Steadings Wilkieston, Edinburgh, West Lothian EH27 8BY Scotland
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