Journey After the Funeral (2007)
This work records part of a train journey between Belfast and Carrickfergus, capturing reflections of the light and passing landscape on a table surface. The journey was one, which I had taken many times as a child and young adult but on this occasion it was taken just after my mother’s funeral. The reflection of the passing landscape was not only a nostalgic revisiting of times past but also a prompt to consider how the world had changed; a reevaluation or recalculation. Given the contemplative nature of the work this piece deliberately has no audio.
Running time 17 mins.
A Sense of the World – the blind traveller (2007)
This work is a documentary travelogue which employs shadows in combination with ambient sounds to mediate the experience of the artist travelling through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. The work draws from the journeys made by the celebrated 19th century ‘Blind Traveller’; James Holman, and was edited in line with the actual chronological order of the journey. Given that vision had been lost by both the artist and the historic character, the shadows and the sounds in the film are intended to prompt to the visual imagination into ‘colouring in’ what might be taking place.
Running time: 26mins.
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