When is the present

by Will Ashon

68 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2021

Reviews

[Juliano · Rating 4 out of 5]

“And every person, every viewer, has a different way of interpreting what they’re looking at. So it could mean a lot of things.” Will Ashon’s When Is The Present stitches together the thoughts and musings of ten different women responding to David Hockney’s ‘My Mother’ photo collage taken at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire. Through these “multiple viewpoints. A cacophony of opinion!” he weaves together a stunning tapestry of dislocated memory, such past-rooted emotions as grief and regret, and questions of what art means in any given moment, both for the people directly implicated in it at its origin, and those indirectly affected nearly forty years later.