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Desription
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2015
Video (MPEG-4) 3:50 minutes
Muslin, cotton thread, chalk dust.
This video piece was made to reflect on the resolution of the long mourning process to an ethereal state. Chalk is made from ancient dead organisms and so carries with it a sense of loss, not morbid and heavy but ethereal, light and full of hope. It is formed from the microscopic skeletons of marine plankton, colourless and pure, collapsed and compressed, over millions of years. The chalk in this video artwork was blown into the air and onto a constructed cloth artwork titled ‘Holding On’ (2012) This work consists of patches of fine muslin that are barely held together with stitch. Some of these patches have been printed with fragments of letters from people I know who have died in recent years.
Work to be shown on a screen or projected onto a wall in a darkened space.
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