MEAN TIME

29 artists were paired with 29 writers to create a collaborative work during Lockdown 2020. 

Mean Time was created by Veta and Susannah Hart

Greenwich Mean Time

Poem by Susannah Hart

 

Straddling the meridian,
a foot in each hemisphere,

we stand at the beginning
and the end of days.

The sun is casually dying.
The scale of things appals me.

In the shop, 3-D globes
twirl on their axes.

Now and not now
is the fourth dimension.

Clutching our lollies,
we head down the hill,

slipping through time,
frictionless, as easy as light.

Mean Time - relief etching - gold leaf
Mean Time - detail