bathe your wounds in shed tears, the salt will heal your trembling body (2023)
Collaboration with Nick Rushton
Shown at through the eyes of a pigeon, at 22fifty, Cape Town, May 2023
i kiss you and i am (w)hole (2023)
THICK SPACE: a manifesto I (neon), 2022 Shown as part of the Central Saint Martins Degree Shows 2022.
The installation was comprised of:
Four screens showing THICK SPACE: a script/manifesto I, II, III & IV, digitally rendered animations with sound, Unistrut, two Tannoy stereo speakers, Yamaha amplifier, scrap wood, extension cables, stereo wire.
The four videos are intended to be portrait, rotated for vertical screens
limp jelly fingers, 2022 limp jelly fingers traverses a path through a fictional digital landscape. When up close, the subject becomes traversable and more akin to a landscape or a habitable environment, whereas when at a distance it appears more akin to an organism. Through playing with scale, we see how human perception of a space changes, and these speculative spaces offer infinite room to explore and play.
The accompanying text is written in response to the digital environment and aims to bring the human closer to these spaces by swapping between emotive and more mechanic language.
I see the subjects of these works as beings, eco-systems, and worlds, and use the space of Blender as a portal into this unexplored and unique space which I have now identified as THICK SPACE.
Documentation of Transforming Thick Space 2022, installation made in collaboration with Jacob Sirkin See more about the show here.
Dancing in Thick Nothingness, 2022 Dancing in Thick Nothingness is a digital render made in the free and open source program Blender. The work interrogates the gaps between digital and physical spaces, and the relationship that the human viewer has with these spaces. Using poetry as a tool, the artist responded to the slow rendering process that is part of creating in digital 3D spaces. This human response weaves together the space inside the screen with the physical world which we inhabit.
The animation shows a journey through a fictioned space. By playing with scale the viewer unsure if they are watching interactions between organisms, landscapes, or wider ecologies/universes. The experimental use of sound allows the viewer to be immersed in the bizarre, uncanny, pulsating space, where the text sometimes aligns with the visuals, but often leaves you dancing in thick nothingness.
negotiating the liquid colour ways beyond our microwaved meat mountains, 2021, in collaboration with Lily Stevens negotiating_the_liquid_colour_ways_beyond_our_microwaved_meat_mountains is a collaboration between Lily Stevens and Fran Hayes.
Fran carves a landscape out of digital clay in Blender, a free and open-source 3D modelling program. In the centre, an entity emerges, identity currently unknown, pulsing to the breath.
They are being, ecosystem, cosmos. A Hybrid. An Allow. They negotiate physical and digital realms, opening portals for those less fortunate. They open spaces for the excluded and the marginalised, and create inclusive worlds.
In response, Lily weaves words, responding to the hypnotic pulsating of this mysterious identity.
For the tongue is a porous entity. Open to the world. It absorbs, chews and extrudes. These words emerge from the liquid ground. Used to navigate through fertile murk.
Virtual Worlds Performance, 2020 Collaborative performance at Central Saint Martins using an overhead projector showing a walkthrough of a 3d modelled and rendered virtual landscape.