Back in July I was involved in a workshop for members of the public hosted at the Yorkshire Museum – Medieval Word Craft – which gave participants to respond to some of the Museum’s medieval collections creatively. It was the culmination of a small project funded by the Research Champions at the University of York, and forming part of my Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Divine Abstraction: Medieval Modern Networks of Faith and Culture’.
One of our project interns, Ellen Waters, wrote a reflection on the workshop and gathered up fragments of writing from the day to create a collaborative poem. You can read all of this on the York Museums Trust website here.
Dark jewels and a field of teeth.
Golden I lie, God-bound in image;
tossed about bubbling blue eye.
Part of the collaborative poem put together by Ellen Waters
Francesca Brooks 