RE-MEMBER-ING

RE-MEMBER-ING is an installation of three, inter-related works archiving the objects and close surroundings of my Grandma’s sitting room. Archiving was done from memory.

Drawing (50 x 70 cm white paper) is of my Grandma’s side table with her essential items.

Audio extract (1m 12s) documenting the ‘members’ of my Grandma’s sitting room. Audio consists of voice (reciting objects) and the sound of paper being pinpricked in the room of my studio.

Original work (29m 27s, looped stereo) is heard through headphones and a cassette tape player.

Text (A3 paper) documents the process of archiving the ‘members’ of my Grandma’s sitting room, remix of words by Mark Doty.

RE-MEMBER-ING

Members made poignant

Now withholding any narrative

Distilled into an aura of intimacy

Saved from the corrosions of local time

Giving the room back its body

The theatre of recollection

Thoroughly restores

A procession of existence

Costumes and illuminates

A kind of beauty not immune to time

But embedded in it

Re-member-ing

To hold on

To members that defend and render

Filling silence

An interiority eternally poised

Remix by Ceola

of 'Still Life with Oysters and Lemon' by Mark Doty