Caerdydd - Clunderwen - Caerdydd

Tactile Bosch, selected group show.

very large photographic work of train window images from the above journey, mainly of Port Talbot.

the space between

Have I ever been to Port Talbot?
Inside and outside, moving and stationary. Reflections in glass - where do they exist? The glass is thin, but as I focus the lens, I go beyond the glass. Focus on the glass and the beyond, the real outside, (especially the industry of Port Talbot particularly the steel works, remembered from geography lessons at the age of 11), is still there, but out of focus. I’ve never stopped in the town, only passed through, probably hundreds of times. My eye can’t focus both on the near glass and the far landscape. Focus on the glass for dirt and rain and scratches, memories. Where are you when you travel? An investigation of memory, seeing and landscape, within travel.
An ongoing series of work Clunderwen – Caerdydd – Clunderwen; Charing Cross – Charlton – Charing Cross and other journeys that occur such as Caerdydd – Carlisle – Caerdydd.

the order of domestic memory

@ ointment II, Llandudoch/St. Dogmaels, Sir Benfro, Cymru/Wales
installation & performance






The Domestic Order of Memory
The Memory of Domestic Order
The Order of Domestic Memory

Order
Organise
Arrange


Every part in its right place
A place for everything

Trefn Ddomestig Cof
Cof Trefn Ddomestig
Trefn Cof Domestig

Trefnu
Cymhennu
Tacluso


Pod darn yn ei briod le

Lle i bopeth


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reconcile I & II

@ ointment I, Parc Y Pratt Farm, Sir Benfro, Cymru/Wales
performance & installation


reconcile /,ri:k¥n,sail/ v.tr 1 Make friendly again after estrangement. 2 (usu. in refl. or passive; foll. by to) make acquiescent or contentedly submissive to (something disagreeable or unwelcome) (was reconciled to failure). 3 settle (a quarrel etc.). 4 a harmonize; make compatible. b show the the compatibility of by argument or in practice (cannot reconcile your views with the facts) reconcilement the bringing to agreement things at variance





Reconcile I
Installation and performance in a grain store at Parc y Pratt. The inspiration came from finding the ground of the space covered with owl pellets: a barn owl was residing in the loft of the next space. I brought together the place and the story of Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogion (ancient Welsh legends). The story of a woman created from flowers as reward for a man, who is later punished by being banished into the night as an owl. I feel she needs to be flowers and owls. I used movement and the action of sewing owl feathers and flowers onto a hanging of black silk gauze.
The installation could only be viewed in three specific ways: through the feeder hole at the bottom, climbing the vertical ladder to the top or by looking at the mirror that over hung the space.
Reconcile II
In the barn next door I sat on a stool and sewed rosebuds and owl feathers onto my fingers. There was no barrier between the audience and me in this case.


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"And the room was full of petals from skylight and rafters, and all about them a fragrance, and petals, flowers falling, broom, meadowsweet, falling, flowers of the oak."

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