Restriction
An off-shoot to ‘Bone-setting with Other Beings’, these four tiny vertebrae were exhibited as part of an exhibition of miniature pieces of artwork, inspired by the experience of enforced solitude during the coronavirus pandemic. They were sent by post and were/are displayed in a set of old letterpress drawers and showcased online through livestream and video in a project led by artist Amanda Lynch in partnership with Clayhill Arts, Somerset.
During the isolation of lockdown the skeleton came to represent the scaffold on which life is built, and these vertebrae, separated as they are from the whole, are presented as a metaphor for the feeling of collapse and separation, the dis-mantling of tender relationships and usual behaviours that form our lives and selves. There was a yearning to gather the scattered pieces, the shattered .scaffold of life and reconnect them. The materials themselves were organic matter gathered from the garden and daily walks, glued and re-imagined.
Natural materials, flour and water tinted with pigment.
2019