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Locations, Three essays about Agnes Varda, stage fright, boredom, Deleuze, beaches, cyborgs and more, original text and images, 28 pages, 21cm x 15cm
Some time ago I created several performances with a partner, in a small network of live art clubs in South East London. In this distant past, there were no digital cameras, no mobile phones, no easy way to document anything. So, nothing was documented. I have no photos, no audio, nothing. Moving some paperwork at home I found an ancient flyer and called my partner.We dredged up memories – faulty, mismatched. She didn’t remember the time we transported a double bed to a railway arch in Vauxhall. I didn’t remember the performance we did with paper bags over our heads. She remembered exhilaration. I remembered stage fright. She said Let’s do it again! I said Never!
Over and Over, hand made cloth bound book, archival print, size when closed 9cm x 7cm
The Book of Boo, handmade cloth bound book, hand stitch on archival print, size when closed 12cm x 9cm
When I live in the Countryside, handmade cloth bound book, original text with original and found images, 18cm x 13cm
“When I live in the countryside I will wake up in the morning, I’ll be woken by the light coming through the window because I won’t draw the curtains or maybe even have curtains or maybe have them just to keep the heat in and when I wake up I will get up and I won’t even look through the window (not every day) because I want to be in the countryside I don’t want to look at it so I will go straight downstairs and put a jumper on over my t-shirt and boots on over my pyjama bottoms and go outside….”
The Journey Home, handmade cloth bound book, original text and collage, 16cm x 12cm.
“They were delighted to see us and also relieved in a way that we did not understand. The route had seemed quite straightforward, but perhaps we could have got lost or there was some other hazard we had inadvertently avoided….”