The Garden, a PJ Harvey Discussion Site

Hell and High Water wrote:My copy arrived today.

!!!!! I looooove the artwork!

Mine arrived also. There's some definite DVV influence happening, eg "On Colmer's Hill". There's also some surprisingly realistic images, like "T.E. Lawrence at Eype".

Do you suppose the text and the artwork are related? I haven't read the text yet, but the Jim Shepard piece "The Track of the Assassins" seems at first glance like it might be related to the 3 images she did: "Edvard at Eype", "T.E. Lawrence at Eype" and "The Reverend Lowman Lang at Eype". Shepard's story appears to have a lot of middle eastern references. Anyone know how those 3 subjects could be related?

Eype is a tiny village in Dorset. There must be a big radio tower there since it's in all 3 drawings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eype" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There's also a "Head of Edward Munch" at the front (with the ever present radio tower in the background). Munch's iconic drawing is "The Scream":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The official site has a teaser:
http://pjharvey.lucidwebs.co.uk/upload/PJ_Zoetrop.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Eype is very near where she lives, I can't verify the existence of any tower though. Maybe it signifies something else? Then there's those "waves" emanating from the church.

I'd better read it.

I wonder if they recorded some of the new album in the Eype church?
http://www.eype-dorset.co.uk/eypechurch.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I found Colmers Hill, it's up by Symonsbury. It's unusual looking as it has several trees planted at the very top.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... kipedia.en" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There's an amazing amount of detail in google street view. Drag the little (gold) man onto the street that goes to the beach.:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 6,,0,-0.04" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You can also drag him to pictures on the inset map.

Haven't found any radio towers yet.

I found a tower elsewhere that looked very similar, just a standard communications tower. I'll bet they're all over.

Why are the waves coming from the church instead of the radio tower?

She spells "Edward Munch" in the "Head of Edward Munch", but it's "Edvard at Eype". It's worth reading the wikipedia page about Munch.

Can somebody please share some scans for those of us who won't be having the chance to buy it? :S

Please, pretty please !!!!!!

Any copyrighted material that is posted here will be removed.

But don't worry, something will work out.

Hi, could you write us what is in the magazine? PJ's drawing? Photos of her sculpures? Is there something else? Any photos of Polly?

There is just the one photo of PJ that's also in the teaser DrDark linked to above.

Scanning might be a problem anyway, the mag, is perfect bound, meaning it's put together like a book. opening it wide enough to scan the whole page would in many cases break the binding.

They won't ship it everywhere?

I'd like to scan in all the images, but it wouldn't be right..

Here's a description of what's there:

1. Cover, "The Brown Hare", see http://pjharvey.lucidwebs.co.uk/upload/PJ_Zoetrop.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
2. Inside front cover, "On Colmer's Hill", Beefheartian colored pencil (?) drawing of deer, with a yellow hill with an eye
3. page opposite table of contents, "Box of gulls", see http://pjharvey.lucidwebs.co.uk/upload/PJ_Zoetrop.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
4. page on reverse of table of contents page, "Head of Edward Munch", charcoal "life" drawing of a man's head
5. page 13, "Eyes", child-like pen & ink drawing of a deer with a ghost under it (?) with eyes floating around
6. page 17, "Weeping Stars", another child-like pen & ink drawing of an animal with ghost rising up
7. page 21, "Hoof-prints", child-like pen & ink drawing of a horse walking under stars leaving hoof prints, towards a child
8. page 25, "Herring gull", pastel (?) color drawing of a gull with actual feathers for its wings
9. page 29, "Blackbird", colored pencil drawing of a blackbird with one drawn wing and a real black feather for the other
10. page 32, "Eagle", colored pencil drawing on an eagle between 2 moons with one drawn wing and one real feather for the other wing
11. page 35 "Sunday walk", whimsical clay (?) colored figures of animals, pig, cat, bird and 2 mice in a box?
12. page 38 "Lightbulb family on rug", 2 light bulbs painted red with whimsical faces (1 cat, 1 human) stuck into small brown bottles placed on a drawing with a colorful pattern with a small frog-like face coming out of it
13. page 41 "Edvard at Eype", realistic pencil drawing of a man in a long coat with a large bird of prey and a radio tower in the background
14. page 44 "T.E. Lawrence at Eype", another realistic drawing of T.E. Lawrence in Arabic head dress with a different bird of prey and and a radio tower in the background
15. page 49 "The Reverend Lowman Lang at Eype", another very detailed pencil drawing, see http://pjharvey.lucidwebs.co.uk/upload/PJ_Zoetrop.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
16. page 59 "Butterfly leaf", color (watercolor?) drawing of a butterfly with 2 different leaves for wings
17. page 62 "Happy Cyclops", goofy color pencil drawing of a child-like cyclops wielding a mace, with his head smoking and drawing flies
18. page 69 "Blood on the side of my house", child-like watercolor drawing of a house with red streaks on the side of it
19. page 73 "October", pastel (?) drawing of a brown rabbit with gray seed pods hatching next to it(?)
20. page 79 "Wolf in the rain (II)" impressionistic pencil drawing of a wolf's face obscured by streaks
21. page 83 "Horse in the rain", child-like color pencil drawing of horse in the rain sheltering a child. The horse is also imagining another horse, with heart figures
22. page 86 "Self portrait in red", photograph from ITD era, see http://pjharvey.lucidwebs.co.uk/upload/PJ_Zoetrop.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

iza wrote:Hi, could you write us what is in the magazine? PJ's drawing? Photos of her sculpures? Is there something else? Any photos of Polly?

Maybe Polly Nude pics jajaja???????

my copy just arrived!! I absolutely love it

if anyone could share it i would be very grateful. shipping costs more than the magazine for me

Mine was waiting on the mat when i got in from work yesterday

funny really cuz it's not really the sort of thing i'd buy but i felt strangely warmed by the fact it was Polly's work i was looking @...... bril

have to find time to read it now?!?

Saw it sticking out of the mail box on my way up the drive today