FLESH TOUCHING GROUND TOUCHING FLESH, 2023
What is it...
to be a vessel?
Empty. Blackness ensues.
To contain,
To be contained.
Sitting between the boundaries of the seen and unseen.
Travelling on foot deep within,
To sacred spaces where the veil between land & person feels indistinct,
I situate myself.
I walk. I heal. I breathe.
I feel the connection in those moments, to my sisters and mother,
Flesh touching ground touching flesh,
Separated by time but not spirit.
Hold Me, I call once more...
She Responds.
Cocooned in the earths embrace.
A stone circle. A cave. A womb. A camera.
Places of emergence. Places of transformation.
Life. Death. Rebirth.
Light transcends through sacred spaces,
Just as light is my medium, contained within my pinhole camera.
A 'womb-like vessel',
Bound together by film in a state of temporality,
Matter transforms.
'Flesh Touching Ground Touching Flesh I', Photopolymer Etchings on Somerset Soft White 300gsm Paper, 56cm x 76cm.
'Flesh Touching Ground Touching Flesh I', Details
"A circular aperture is an opening - a primal archetypal motif for birth and a place of transformation, symbolically feminine."
- Eric Renner, Pinhole Photography: From Historic Technique to Digital Application
'Flesh Touching Ground Touching Flesh II', Photopolymer Etchings on Somerset Soft White 300gsm Paper, 56cm x 76cm.
'Flesh Touching Ground Touching Flesh II', Details
"The archetype of the womb is that of the container - container space, the alchemical space within which transmutation occurs. Within this womb container all arises, transmutes, becomes and dissolves back into the cauldron of the womb to arise yet again, again transformed, again becoming, again dissolving."
'Flesh Touching Ground Touching Flesh III', Photopolymer Etchings on Somerset Soft White 300gsm Paper, 56cm x 76cm.
'Flesh Touching Ground Touching Flesh III', Details
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART GRADUATE SHOW
TRUMAN BREWERY, LONDON 13TH-16TH JULY 2023
