These projects explore my relationship to the world around me – I am interested in how we inhabit space and how multi-sensory reactions are filtered through past experience as well as future hopes and fears. The body holds memory and ritualises behavior, bodies reflect lives lived.
As I contemplate the world, my senses are alerted and rational interpretation gives way to involuntary action and instinctive responses. Memories stir, associations unfold and emotions flow; my imagination wanders and time expands as the present shifts and starts to incorporate the past – other places and other times.
Memory confronts imagination, fact abuts fiction.
We are still mythical;
we are still
permanently trapped somewhere between the heroic and the pitiful Kate Tempest |