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Giles Round, Poor Boy Blues, 2007 |
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POOR BOY BLUES BY RAMBLIN’ THOMAS, 1929 REMIX: GILES ROUND, POOR BOY BLUES, 2007 ‘Poor Boy Blues’ is one of over 800 songs dealing with prison. It deals with the prisoners displacement, lack of home and identity between Louisiana and Texas, as Harry Smith paraphrases in his liner notes: “If boat don’t land, stay on water long as any man. Boat came a rocking like drunken man: home is on water, don’t like land.” In Giles Round work geometric shapes, minimal structures and monochrome planes are combined with objects such as plants, lights or three-dimensional texts. In this work Round focuses on the last sentence of the song "home is on water, don't like land." Based in London Giles Round has had recent exhibitions in London, New York and Istanbul. |
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