Journeys with 'The Waste Land'

"On Margate Sands.
I can connect
Nothing with nothing."

There's this art exhibition called Journeys with 'The Waste Land' going on at Turner Contemporary (named after J. M. W. Turner, whose paintings we have seen in class), an art gallery in Margate, Kent, England. The exhibition, a visual response to Eliot's The Waste Land, is dense and multi-layered just like the poem. In 1921, having taken time off from his job at Lloyds Bank for what would now be called depression, T. S. Eliot spent three weeks recuperating in Margate. Sitting in Nayland Rock shelter, he wrote "some 50 lines" of his poem.

The exhibition explores how contemporary and historical art can enable us to reflect on the poem's shifting flow of diverse voices, references, characters, and places. (https://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/journeys-with-the-waste-land)

T. S. Eliot by Patrick Heron (1949)

The Shore by Paul Nash (1923)

East Coker-Tse by Philip Guston (1979)

If Not, Not by R. B. Kitaj (1975-76)

Night Windows by Edward Hopper (1928)

Abortion Sketches by Paula Rego (1998)