Hildegard of Bingen ( 1098-1178)

A few months ago as part of my research I was looking at the Catholic Magdalene Laundries. I made a response by setting up an Installation and making some prints. The women in the laundries were made to work very hard in very harsh conditions, doing washing and other tasks “in effect washing their sins away”, there were many things considered a sin for example being pregnant was one of such , when the child was born with no explanation it would be taken away. I experimented with film and props such as using a bed sheet, I filmed it being washed and folded and being tied into knots trying to resemble an umbilical cord tied into prayer knots. I then slowed the film process down to demonstrate the monotony and unfairness of their every day penance.