{"product_id":"the-love-carrots","title":"The Love Carrots","description":"\u003cp\u003e2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 x 19.5 x 5.5 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBronze\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdition of 10 + 1 AP\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach edition is stamp signed and numbered on the back\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"After the opening of my latest exhibition, an emotional journey of the past few years, alone in the studio, I felt exhausted and needed to escape London for a much needed Folly break. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Leaving your work behind after exposing so much of oneself, the relief I find turns first into an overwhelming exhaustion, followed by complete emptiness where the slightest key change in a song can simply make one burst into tears... It’s such a huge come down. Your creative juices have been working on overdrive that sometimes a rest can be a huge mistake. There is a hole, an empty void that needs to be filled and so sometimes having nothing to do just echoes the emptiness...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The first day was the most depressing, that was until my nephew, who also works for me, called to say he needed to pay me a visit in order to discuss the studio that I was planning to construct on my land and could he bring the entire family along for a day out.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Normally in those situations I would take guests to the nearby Woolpack Inn for lunch, but I am overjoyed. 'I’ll cook lunch', I announce... But what will the kids eat?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Maybe pizza, pasta, peas or... carrots came the response.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Carrots.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I let the vegetable just hang in the air for a few moments longer – the catalyst that sparked the revolution, as I imagined a four course carrot feast. Since the summer there’d been a wild freak carrot crop; they just keep on popping out of the ground in all kinds of deformed organic shapes and sizes... \"At last!\" I cry... Something to do, something to fill the emptiness, that enormous gaping hole... And so begins a two day operation of harvesting, cleaning, scraping, shaving, peeling, shaping, grating, pummelling and sculpting these beautiful orange things.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Two days it took, two whole days of preparing - but who cares? It may have sparked an idea for the next show, not only did it include a four course carrot lunch, but a series of tabletop carrot sculptures at its centrepiece.\"\u003c\/i\u003e - excerpt from \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/suewebsterstudio.com\/folly_cook_book.html\" target=\"blank\"\u003eThe Folly Acres Cook Book\u003c\/a\u003e by Sue Webster\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tim Noble \u0026 Sue Webster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47763921862821,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/4941\/8917\/files\/carrotloversshopify.jpg?v=1777283016","url":"https:\/\/shop.timnobleandsuewebster.com\/products\/the-love-carrots","provider":"Tim Noble \u0026 Sue Webster","version":"1.0","type":"link"}