The Sun Still Shines... @ForTheBurds

I was looking through some of George Wyllie's hand drawn books today.

They are joyous thing to hold and to behold. He made them to accompany most projects he embarked on.

And he embarked on many fantabulous voyages in the name of art. This one is a page from a series of drawings made in the early 1980s for his years-ahead-of-its-time multi-media play about the iniquities of the world banking system, A Day Down A Goldmine (ADDAG).

A friend of mine lost her dad just a week or so before the opening of the big George Wyllie Retrospective exhibition in Glasgow last year and when I saw her for the first time since it happened she seemed to be in a better frame of mind than I expected.

'Look,' she said, pointing to a rusty rectangle on the wall, into which George had welded out the words: 'The sun still shines'.

It was one of George's original props from ADDAG.

And do you know something... he was right. The suns does still shine.

Today was one of these autumn days when the weather didn't know whether to pelt with rain, blow a gale or cast strong October sunlight all around rust coloured trees.

More about ADDAG on the George Wyllie Education Initiative HERE