Three Songs on Pain Light and Time - ACE441.3

LIGHT Sunflowers. Rodney’s own Super-8 film of hospital activities. His VO talking about light meaning warmth, sun lamps, even heat blankets. Rodney’s VO over Science Museum model of haemoglobin cell with lights indicating the part of the cell which causes Sickle Cell anaemia. Images from Black Man Public Enemy. Hospital scenes. Rodney’s VO saying that while green used to be his favourite colour, it now reminds him of surgery. Storm People on beach holding cloths in the wind. Rodney walking towards them and his wheelchair. Sunflowers. Rodney’s VO talking about the "guilty secret" of having been a flower painter in the past and about growing flowers Rodney walking. People holding up photographs in the sunflower field. Rodney. Wheelchair. Rodney talks about having grown a nine-foot sunflower. Rodney and Diane Symons in the Rothko Room, Tate Gallery. Black on Maroon (1958), Black on Maroon (1959). Rodney’s VO pointing to the irony that, though the gallery includes very few works by black artists, the majority of the security guards are black. VO continues over him taking sugar lumps from a packet, saying that the history of the Tate is the history of the slave trade sugar plantations. His VO says he wants to make a model of the building in sugar cubes, surrounded by security guards.