On Sunday 31st October 2010 I burnt 27 pictures of people I love.
On this day the thinness of the barriers between this world and others is at it’s thinnest. The burning hopefully helps things through and shares the love somehow. A positive act.
I was stopped from performing The Hot Chestnut Man outside the RCA Battle of Ideas on pain of arrest. Claire Fox, Director of the Institute of Ideas, called The Hot Chestnut Man “idiotic”.
I burnt a picture of Claire along with my loved ones – an intermingle of feelings given up to air and ash. The ash I’ll use mixed in with compost to grow something good.
THE BURNING OF CLAIRE FOX – Paul Conneally 2010
