For Videos of the above as they appear in the installation please click on these links to view in full screen:

Book of Hours

Become becoming

Concerning the book that is the body

Now I become myself

Morning offering

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For Sound work please listen here,  preferably using head phones: 

Philopatry

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For Poems that link to this work please read here.

 

Life is a Journey. MA Fine Art.

 

I have spent years researching my personal history as an adoptee. I felt I had come to terms with what I knew and what I didn't know and probably never would.  However I had always been uncomfortable with not knowing and uncertainty so I chose to continue this research for my MA Fine Art at Plymouth University.  I examined how an embodied arts process can express pre-verbal affects of displacement and loss. My research reminded me of Georgia O'Keefe's words: 

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                   'I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for'

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My topic led me to explore the imminent loss of my childhood home, a traditional dairy farm in East Devon. This was just prior to the farm being developed into Cranbrook, the first new town (6,500 homes) to be built in Devon since the Middle Ages. This home was my heart and soul and I was devastated to be losing it in this way.  Even though I hadn't lived at Tillhouse for 40 years and can't remember the field names, responses to the farm are still engrained in me. Sadly there was an arson attack during the building of the new town Cranbrook and consequently Tillhouse Farm house is now a gutted ruin. 

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For further more in depth information please read my presentation at  The Home and the World Conference 2012

in downloadable pdf of Life is a Journey  on Academia.edu.

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