48 Summers: List of Elements
Shadow Concept: A ritual to bring the Sun
Fragile Protocols: A five year ritual
Everyday Rituals: Watching the growth and decay of daffodils
Grid of 48 digital photographs (b/w)
Grid of 36 digital photographs (colour)
12 dried daffodil flowers/ seed heads
12 dried daffodil flowers on paper
Set of rosary beads; papier mache, dried daffodils/seeds*
Life in the seed heads (video)
48 daffodil bulbs
life in those seed heads
It felt almost cruel: the vibrant sounds of life in those seed heads. The cat caught a mouse, and the child cried out ‘it’s still alive’.
48 Daffodil Bulbs
For a long time, even the thought of new life was too much. A glint, then, placing each one of these 48 daffodil bulbs in the darkest matter.
A ritual calling the sun
Year 1
In the first year afterwards, I buy a bunch of cut daffodils and arrange them in a vase. I sense the shadow; the Affodil of the Elysian Fields. I notice the daffodil's gradual transformation to decay and death.
A favourite food of the dead
The pale, deathless Affodil that overruns the Elysian fields of Hades. A favourite food of the dead, Affodils are almost invisible and unknowable to the living. In the mortal world it finds approximate form as the vivid yellow daffodil that erupts and decays each spring.
She is Code
Bathing herself in algorithms, she hopes to slide surreptitiously to the threshold of their borders, sensing their discrete boundaries, making fragile. She wants to seep beneath their rational logic blurring them into a state of unreadability. She slinks across the ground from left to right and back again, obscuring the text. She imagines herself spilling into each word and responding intuitively to its movements within a tempo of mutuality. She is, after all, always in the process of becoming, a seasonal goddess; symbol of transformation itself. Yet, within this particular paradigm, she is unable to shake the materiality of the browser window. She acknowledges her limitations as any kind of symbol of non-binary transformation: she is code. She yearns for inkiness, for a slow encounter with the sinewy fibres of a paper sheet.
Electronic Village Galleries
Overview of Electronic Village Galleries Pilot Project
The Cornwall Workshop
Convened by Teresa Gleadowe and Martin Clarke, October 2011
http://thecornwallworkshop.com/the-cornwall-workshop-archive/archive-2011/programme-2011
Recipe for Sunny Hair
Put three table spoonsful of dried chamomile into a bowl and add 100ml of boiling water
Cover the flowers and leave to steep for 20 minutes. Strain the flowers retaining the liquid.
Massage into washed hair and leave for 20 minutes for sunny, shiny hair.
Glorious Ninth engage in tactical gardening to recover knowledge of herbs and healing from commercial control and to share it as common knowledge.
