Bone-setting with Other Beings
I spent my time in lockdown making fresh bones. I found myself choosing and assembling, building and binding – gluing together random finds which, once pasted in the pale glue became skeletons. Organic material gleaned from the garden or a treasured walk in the neighbourhood were re-imagined, a disintegration followed by a reconstruction – a kind of novice bone-setting, inventing and testing the scaffolds of strange bodies and beasts. There are respiratory cages and backbones and hip sockets.
I see them as objects of renewal, not decay, nature as healer and evidence of the shared life-building forces at play.
Natural materials, flour and water tinted with pigment.
2020