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Dialogue with my Father
Paying homage to a composer, a writer, a teacher and a father.
The role of Literary Executor weighs an enormous sense of responsibility for the artistic career of another. Through manuscript paper and writing implements, the familial piano, this project creates a space to converse; father, daughter.
Single channel colour HD video
stereo sound composition
2022-2025
Duration: 7’20”
Location: Suffolk
What if you just cannot allow yourself to let go of something, because it reminds you so profoundly of the person who has gone? What if this holding on to the past has become self destructive, to the point where objects are taking over?
The artist pushes the heavy bulk of this domestic, upright piano around on the concrete floor trying and failing to find it space in the room. Frustration strips the piano of its dignity. Braced, it fights back stoically, belligerent, vibrating a dance to its raucous rumbling, dainty wheels twist in agony under its defiant weight, before taking you on a mesmerising journey inside the piano accompanied by a composition that gives voice to its involuntary creeks and resonances.
2025 screened as part of Dialogues by Sophie Standford (UK)
DIVFUSE Film Archive No.1 with a theme on domesticity.
The Archive (collage on paper)
Collage Series, 21x30cm
Handwritten music manuscripts, printed anotated notes, graphite, ink, gouache, photographs, paper
2020-2024
How do you sort and care for the archive of another artist?
the proximity
handwritten
manuscripts and notes;
regret for the unspoken dialogues.
A palimpsest
works on paper
bearing the visible traces.