Performance Video

South Shields Beach 17.04.11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59BiTuWKMwE

Fishing Float Dress

Photographs documenting performance
Dress: 100 bubble fishing floats, elastic, fabric

The dress is supposed to represent a jellyfish, it will float on the surface when out in deeper water, it is about 4metres in diameter and tangles around your body whilst in the surf, also it goes transparent when wet. The dress has a bridal look to it, I was trying to embody the ultra feminine into a fragile, yet powerful jellyfish.

Jellybeat

Experimenting with monoprint animation, first collaboration with Mike Glover on the drums. There a few sound glitches and I can't understand, why I am trying to sort them out.

Jellyfim

 

Experimenting with lino cuts in stop frame animation. It could be projected onto the latex as an alternative way to light them.

JellySponge

Steel and sponge

Jellyfish Sonnet

Squishy bodies bob aimlessly around,
too and fro, back and forth, each day the same.
Circular, spherical, sandy beach bound,
wiry tentacles and tender membranes.

Come, play along with the mysterious crowd
very beautiful, yet not cute nor tame.
Tingly currents and toxins coloured loud
beware the lure of the lion mane.

When tempted by death, now I float proud,
blooms that once smothered me, fueled my pain,
morph in the depths of the sea. No sound.
Scarred and weepy tissue, just mind remains.

Now jellyfish, and the tide is right...I
rendezvous with my swarm under moonlight.

Monoprints

Paper, ink and watercolour