to build a home
(2021)
digital film (5:01 mins) featuring the following sculptures & objects: 'phantom' (2021) - full size wooden chair, dried rose & gysophila; 'weight' (2021) - lace curtain, concrete; 'scar tissue' (2021) - child's fractured wooden chair, nails; 'sanctuary II' (2021) - bird cage, concrete; 'ghost' (2021) - cellular blanket, concrete; clay, candle, burnt photograph.
'to build a home' is a sculptural intervention in a disused dwelling in dartmoor national park. with the ruin as container, the work explores the liminality of present recountings of traumatic memory. it explores the fragility of the body and of home through an uncanny representation of place, time and entity. a hybrid of positive and negative material, the work interrogates the unseen. uncomfortably long shots capture the feelings that surface with cathartic art-making, where phantoms are inadvertently invited to resurface and embed themselves within the materials.
