In-between (the closer you look at a word the more distantly it looks back)

Nightfall. Between day and night. 'In-between (the closer you look at a word the more distantly it looks back)', (2024), is a cross-media artwork (print, performance, photography) that invites you to scramble tongues and reorientate your body.

Two parts of printed matter; an invitation (A5) and prologue (A1). The invitation provides instructions for joining a land-based performance. 

The Prologue is a poem, printed and folded like a map. Unfolded and activated through the performance. Held by the uneven surface of the forest floor. The poem is sounded out, using voices as instruments by the performer/s. Turning the paper over, performers write out resonant words or phrases using charcoal. Writing over and over. Until words are obliterated and a cacophony of new meanings may form.  Photographs of each scrambling performance are accumulated forming part of the work.

This work values liminal places. Questioning the distance of inter-connectedness between language and meaning, and the peripheries between living beings. The title of the work borrows from writer Karl Kraus who wrote the aphorism from his book 'Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths' (1976), translated from German to English as "The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back."

In-between (the closer you look at a word the more distantly it looks back): Prologue (2024).
A0 80gsm paper, folded.

In-between (the closer you look at a word the more distantly it looks back): 
Invitation (2024).
A5 double sided riso print.

In-between (the closer you look at a word the more distantly it looks back): 
Invitation (2024).
A5 double sided riso print.

The Common, Southampton 26.01.2024

Moon Hill, New Forest 13.01.2024

Moon Hill, New Forest 13.01.2024

Acres Down, New Forest 12.01.2024

detail - In-between (the closer you look at a word the more distantly it looks back): Prologue (2024).
A0 80gsm paper, folded.