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CHIAROSCURO In response to John Constable's "A Boat Passing a Lock", 1826 "I was always determined ... that my pictures should have chiaroscuro, if they had nothing else." The pilgrims follow the hawthorn hedge and enter the water meadow through the lovers gate Hugging the river, they seek the things he loved the sound of water escaping from mill dams old rotten banks, slimy posts and brickwork The wind slip-streams the willows on the bank or is it the motor-way hissing whining ...