What emerges one day feeds into the next. A series of starting points that form parallel threads crossing or merging unexpectedly. The pebble from yesterday is still in my head, rather than my body. I am minding the gap between us and venture off to spend more time with pebbles.
Switching tack, but working with the same words, ‘Mind the Gap’ is a phrase that occurs during a sound clip given to me by MUD Collective colleague Farah Mulla as a (surprising) prompt to use during the residency. Another collective member who is both a geologist and artist posted videos of rocks and sea, sensing, but not knowing the significance. Her name is Dr Nawrast Sabah Abdalwaha and she is in Basra, Iraq. Farah is a sound artist based in India. Today I filmed the waves breaking over rocks and have been combining this with the audio from Farah and video clips from Nawrast.
There is still work to be done on the video and I share a few screen shots of the work in progress. The audio which flows in a strange tension with the visuals is absent of course and I feel an urge to explain, but hesitate to say anything – other than ‘Mind the Gap’.
Video to follow at some point….
