Installation // Performance, GSA Degree Show, Tontine Building, Glasgow, UK, 2017
An agoraphobic artwork, inspired by the sacrament of Confession, tempts us into a cocoon-like sanctum stitched from old bedding and curtains—the protective shrouds that shield us from the overwhelming world outside. Inside, a grove of glowing fruit trees bolsters the heavy tent. From each hollowed fruit protrudes a tiny handwritten scroll confessing a secret. Humorous, shocking, revealing. The physical stripping bare in BATHTISM could hardly have prepared me for the psychological nakedness of MY PRIVATES. Nor could mere liberation of the body have anticipated the transformation emerging from such a chrysalis, allowing the soft glow of fruit hung low to fade into my past.
