Wasted Youth

 

'Wasted Youth' artist book made in collaboration Warren and Lois 2015

'Wasted Youth' artist book made in collaboration Warren and Lois 2015, cover features an illustration of a soup kitchen during the Crimea War.

The majority of arthur+martha CIC projects artworks and poems are made in collaboration with others. In the case of The Homeless Library, those others are homeless men and women and other vulnerable people in our society, those with mental health problems, substance and alcohol abuse, the lonely- using contemporary 'soup kitchen's'.

Sadly we have met many ex-military personnel during our project. Warren we met at The Wellspring, Stockport. During our encounters he gave articulate, passionate, at times angry accounts of the many ex-military he has met on the street. The stories he channeled into poems and wrote into handmade books. Next year these will be shown alongside many of the other artist books, recordings, poems, interviews in a touring exhibition.

Wasted Youth

Youth
lions
led
by
donkeys
but
dumped
to
die
after
use
define
a
solider
ex
solider
have
no
use
in
society
as they don't fit
wasted

Warren wrote 'Wasted Youth into a folded book, inside the cover is a photo of Warren graduating.  The cover is an illustration of a soup kitchen during the Crimea War with the words written 'I've been lost all over the country, everywhere.'

'Wasted Youth' artist book made in collaboration Warren and Lois 2015

You can read more interviews with Warren here. Thanks again to Warren and all of the men and women we have met during the project who share their stories.