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'DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE': GILL HOBSON, LIGHTLINES@ABBEY WALK GALLERY

Lightstain 3 - Gill Hobson 2014 Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. T S Eliot, The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock ‘You’re looking for a place to live, a new home. You write down a list of the things you need – the essentials mainly, then the things you’d like. You see a few places, none of which fit the bill. Reluctantly, you agree to view a house which, on paper, has none of the things you wanted. The moment you walk in, you feel you know this place and it knows you. It’s like an embrace. There is an instinctive sense that speaks of home.’   Lightlines , Gill Hobson’s new exhibition, sets out to explore the intuitive resonances at play between us and the spaces we live in. Developed from a project comprising more than 5,000 photographs of her own home taken over a three-year period, Lightlines includes photographic, film and installation approaches which tease out some of th