Encampment
Encampment (1989) is related to a series of hand-coloured black-and-white etchings entitled 鈥楾he Nursery Rhymes鈥�, made in collaboration with printer Professor Paul Coldwell of Culford Press. Storytelling is an integral theme within Rego鈥檚 practice. Often thought to be the domain of women and maintained through intergenerational oral traditions, folktales and nursery rhymes constitute intimate bonding rituals that are resistant to authority. Rego explains, 鈥榃hen I was a child in Portugal there was very much an oral tradition of storytelling 鈥� many of the tales related had never been written down. I cannot separate my own childhood from the imagined terrors and exquisite thrills of their robust imaginings.鈥� For Rego, the fairy tales give structure to this darkness with its concealed chaos - lurking in this particular etching in the shadows, the 鈥榠magined terrors鈥�.
鲍鱼直播 the series, historian Marina Warner (1989) says of Rego: 鈥楬er sympathy with naivet茅, her love of its double character, its weakness and its force, has led her to Nursery Rhymes as a new source for her imagery.鈥�
