{"product_id":"pharmacopoeia-a-dungeness-notebook","title":"Pharmacopoeia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 1986 artist and filmmaker, Derek Jarman, bought Prospect Cottage, a Victorian fisherman's hut on the desert sands of Dungeness. It was to be a home and refuge for Jarman throughout his HIV diagnosis, and it would provide the stage for one of his most enduring, if transitory projects - his garden. Conceived of as a 'pharmacopoeia' - an ever-evolving circle of stones, plants and flotsam sculptures all built and grown in spite of the bracing winds and arid shingle - it remains today a site of fascination and wonder.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePharmacopoeia\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the best of Derek Jarman's writing on nature, gardening and Prospect Cottage. Told through journal entries, poems and fragments of prose, it paints a portrait of Jarman's personal and artistic reliance on the space Dungeness offered him, and shows the cycle of the years spent there in one moving collage.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'[Derek] made of this wee house, his wooden tent pitched in the wilderness, an artwork - and out of its shingle skirts, an ingenious garden - now internationally recognised. But, first and foremost, the cottage was always a living thing, a practical toolbox for his work' Tilda Swinton, from her Foreword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46108936339629,"sku":null,"price":16.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/8493\/0989\/files\/Pharmacopoeia.jpg?v=1781237568","url":"https:\/\/norlato.com\/products\/pharmacopoeia-a-dungeness-notebook","provider":"norlato","version":"1.0","type":"link"}