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Melt (excerpt 40”)
single channel colour HD video | 4’33” | camera sound
Winter frost glistens on the skin of a wizened quince fruit from the artist’s forest garden. Off camera the artist gently breathes onto the fruit’s icy, frosted skin. The warmth from her breath slowly, imperceptibly at first, starts to melt the surface. Off screen the microphone intensifies engine sounds from vehicles driving by suggesting the environmental issues of pollution, damage, reliance and dependency.