She Does (Working Title) on Paper
She Does (Working Title) on Paper
Video projection, charcoal and pastel on paper, 2024
She Does (Working Title) on Paper gives visual form to the memory and experience of the liminal space between dying and death. In caring for someone exiting this life, I felt like a caretaker of memories and the objects—boxes, antiquities, and personal effects—wherein these memories are infused.
The light of video projection, the friable and condensed application of charcoal and pastel, and torn paper evidence the complex fragility, intimacy, and exhaustion of this temporal space when one is confronted with their own mortality via the death of a parent.
Driven by a hypnotic dirge the projection of performing in my father’s suit is layered and animated into ghostly actions onto sweeping gestural lines and soft monochromic tones. This drawing ritualises care and nurtures relationality to quietly honour women’s unseen labour and question the value of care in a society that values capital.
