still alive
2000 cambridge open studios
An example of an installation, strongly autobiographical, which invited
an active engagement from the viewer. This was a work-in -progress provoked
by the experience of being alongside my father who is weak now in body
and mind.
A figure “drawn” in shards of porcelain clay lies on a red
sheet. Beside the bed, a red chair waits. Under the bed, face downwards,
a set of cards made up of twenty two pairs of recent photographs of
my father, is ready for a game of pelmanism, a game that tests the memory.
At the foot of the bed hangs a clipboard like a hospital chart where
visitors record their experience of sitting in the chair or playing
the game.
The figure made of clay shards subsequently became, after my father's
death, the figure being buried in the video Below
the Surface.
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