The term ‘home’ derived from Old Norse ‘heima’ – describes a state of being as well as a physical place – linking to the sublime Home is the junction box between our private life and our public State of being – home is the last bastion of the senses – intimacy, comfort, privacy “All evidence […]
I have been collaborating with poet Lucy Green I have used Lucy’s poetry before in Sink Poetry Lucy and I often talk through ideas – we explore shared themes and philosophies Her poetry is best experienced when she performs it and we have looked at various ways to make visual her poems – the voice […]
to use an additional component (large viewing box on legs to view the video of the bathroom/eye/peephole film will project down into box and use reflective material to distribute image inside. the pipes will feed in and out of box but not be seen when peeping inside peephole on all sides of box deconstruction of […]
making new speaker boxes with thicker and stronger bases and considering the speakers and usage more effectively have sourced new vinyl and carpet and pipes and building multiple to have available when I know the space I am given played with ways to make easy access to inside of the boxes but it just looked […]
The image of ‘home’ may represent a longing for a home that can never be, or one that never existed. Perhaps the reality of knowing home, feeling at home, is only ever ephemeral and fleeting. Perhaps ‘home’ is abstract – an unreal place. And the domestic operates as a signifier for absence. Domestic imagery has […]
I have gone through the film and captured sound from moments to create a sound landscape (see orange book pg.50-51) with quotes and relevant sounds of importance (in particular wind, doors, windows, house landing) – intention is to create the film through sound in relation to my research of home – to play through the […]
Following on from watching Cathy Come Home play I started to think about how my installations could merge with reflecting upon current housing and social thinking I have contacted Cardboard Citizens and expressed my interest in working with them with the work I am currently exploring I am thinking of using news reports used around […]
playing with Audacity I have used the vocal of me saying, ‘There there’ and distorted, repeated and layered it into a loop to play through the pipes ‘There there’ is a term of reassurance, a repeated soft response to one who is vulnerable, hurt, distressed and in need of comfort the repetition and distortion take […]
setting up in the studio playing with how the sound travels and drawing with the pipes
saw this play by Cardboard Citizens based on Cathy Come Home by Ken Loach (50 years ago) Updated version written by Ali Taylor and invited to Cornwall by St Petrocs – homeless charity based in Truro Really inspiring and emotionally charged play exploring homelessness 50 years on original play Forum Theatre format – so […]