Shown on screen as part of my contribution to our final Handshake6 exhibition Morph at NorthArt in Auckland 2022, these works introduce time based media to my practice as a way to contextualise and project adornment across time and space. The first three of these videos were made during a series of masterclasses conducted via zoom in 2021 with jewellery artist and educator Estela Saez. The series, entitled On_E led each of us 12 Handshake6 participants towards creating an online exhibition of individual videos in response to themes set by Saez, using moving image and audio to reach an international audience during the pandemic.
Sub to Surface promotes an imagined solo underwater exhibition, using no images of the work itself.
365 is a stop motion video of daily drawings made between June 2020-July 2021, presenting concepts driving my work.
Passiton was made as introduction to our online exhibition, showing the work July 2020 being put on then passed on. In this version July 2020 is manually twisted from flat object to three dimensional adornment, artist gaze turns both inwards and outwards as dual versions of self morph in and out of eachother in a circular structure.
Cumulus features five friends gathered atop my local mountain Puketāpapa, adorned in protective cloud bubble headwear. Gradually emerging from isolated perspectives, screened faces engage across enforced personal space as bodies begin to move as a mass, guided by the natural forces of wind and sun. There is a reflective beauty in this slowing down, something lost, something gained, something to take forward.
A version of this performance was enacted during the Morph opening event at Northart. Performers moved in slow motion through the gallery spaces amongst surprised viewers before coming together and moving as a mass in the central space, then drifting out.
Thanks to Estela Saez for sharing your excellent energy and insights through the wavelengths, I don’t think any of us could have envisioned the outcomes.