CUDDY, like all my work, is a moment between dream and storage. But this one is intimate, clandestine and odd.

CUDDY was made for showing here: Objects in conversation. Boxed smears of memory flavoured by homage; being the third pilgrimage to Colmar and the accidental coincident of Easter.

CUDDY is not unlike a handmade Chinese whisper of The Pittancer.

Sparrows dry hearts

fluttered in Joseph's tree

as the city approaches day by day

on cracked and creaking souls.

Even the wind lost,

amid the hill's rise

& fall

dawn

leatherish

disgust.

He carried

the gummy stick

and blood to the snow line

between wolves and haunted fellows

whose simple reverence weeped all the way

home &

dusk

magnified

holiest ground.

CUDDY is made of oak, ash, yew, pine, olive wood, steel, brass, perspex, tufnol, clay and lies.

Brian Catling, 2019

CUDDY is Brian Catling's sixth show with Matt's Gallery.