Wolf Eye is a Wolf Moon. Is about the place where I have lived and worked for over twenty years. A little town called Wombwell, in the district of Barnsley in South Yorkshire. Born in North Yorkshire the move South as a child was a culture shock. As a ten year old I loved the idea of wolves and eagles and dragons. Ways of seeing. An incomer, an outsider navigating dialect and class. There is an outsider in all of us. A wolf, eagle, dragon in us all. It is good to look at things differently. Wombwell is an ex mining town, reimagined by politicians into industrial estates, uprooted communities, changing shop fronts, “change of use.” It has always had big skies and cloudscapes. It is not William Blake’s London or Dylan Thomas’ Llareggub. These were the lenses I was gifted as a child to see through. These are not stories, narrative tales. They are images. The mop and bucket is the one I use to clean floors in the shop I work in. In these days of cameras everywhere even the stars and planets become surveillance cameras.

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