Intermission, 2022

For all the classical characteristics we can draw from Tom Woolner’s works, they never resolve in any enlightened sense. The works often seem like episodes from a cartoon, or, particularly with this work, a theatre stage or layers of a child’s diorama. And more often than not, they’re mischievous: two giant feet emerging from the clouds, like the descent of a clumsy god. If there’s wisdom in here it’s more joyfully surreal.