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preparing for loss

2023

 

Oak cabinet, ‘Heir’ booklet, Edison Fireside Phonograph, 'Seven Sisters' wax cylinder field recording, small wooden table, ‘Epigraph’ laser cut into rice paper, bricks.

Installed at The Slade School of Fine Art.

‘Heir’ combines text and a disintegrative quality of film photography, inkjet printed on Offenbach Bible Paper, 6gsm Kizuki Kozo, bound with hair. The booklet looks to a solid depiction of grief and fear of grief, pairing heavy symbols with dark dream accounts and the act of flight as a motif to process and navigate the interlude between capture and loss. 

 

The install situates heavy, ready-made signifiers with the architecture of University College London, and a haunting touch of the 'Heir' booklet, loose paper ‘epigraph’ poetry sheets and a performance of the ‘Seven Sisters’ field recording. ‘Seven Sisters’ catches an imprint of aeolian sound (air texture) inscribed into wax, recorded on top of the cliffs in December 2023. This cylinder contributes to part of an ongoing field recording project.

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Edison Fireside Phonograph wax cylinder field recording taken from the Seven Sisters, Eastbourne, UK 

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December 2023

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