MA Fine Art
'Memories, here........... and there''With the hand of my heart from the face of my remembrance; until what I wish for be unveiled and appear in sight out of its secret place'. Le Geoff. I explore relationships influenced by social history, memory and memorial. Perspectives are orientated between poles of the 'real' and the 'imagined'. I seek evidence of lost or forgotten companionships within sourced objects and assemble them within light based works. I attempt to pose metaphor and elucidate concepts of memorial. On long solitary walks, I pass graveyards, litter, people, dogs. I absorb myself into the intensity of the approaching and passing of other walkers after which I loose myself to the silence, a back drop for memorial and for all that is lost. Through musings on the landscape I am able to remember and forget simultaneously. I sense memories exist within the trees and grasses, I can see them, they are invisible. I am reminded to remember that some memories are forgotten. Perhaps they exist; awaiting reclamation, suspended in animation within another dimension. A device is installed that could charm melancholic response. Available for commissions and residencies Victoria Haviland 2012 victoria_haviland@yahoo.com