“Although originally composed as a sentence that was grammatically correct ‘green ideas’ was semantically nonsensical when Chomsky wrote this in the fifties. Today our green forests and the community of plants, birds and micro-organisms that shelter there understand this ‘furious sleep’." - Sue Timney & Alix Timney

Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously references a sentence by Noam Chomsky written a few years before the establishment of WWF. These words are widely understood as having no great meaning other than a confusing and absurd construction of words even though grammatically correct. Notwithstanding this, to Sue Timney these words are a warning to protect our forests from the “furious sleep” that Chomsky prophesied. Timney continues to say that being involved in a project like WWF Pandamonium is “So important because it brings all of us within the arts together with science and nature. Worlds Collide the way they should in the best possible way.”For this piece, Timney collaborated with daughter Alix of Bagdoll fame, a fashion textile designer who left Central St Martins in 1997. Together they address the theme of forest and animal conservation by revisiting an existing Timney-Fowler Elizabethan-style garment with new digitally printed fabrics inserted as padded collages of endangered species within frames.