There is an area of ground in the Garw Valley, South Wales, next to a coal mine and school, neither of which exist today.
Collaborating with already meaningful materials taken from a rectangle of soil, I have found an affinity with their propensity to ooze, break apart and misbehave. This merging with the earth and the resulting documentation – traces, objects, installations and filmed performances – has given me a bodily understanding of disenfranchised grief and raised new questions about my identity today as a mother without children.
This project has been supported by Arts Council England and the Brigstow Institute, enabling me to work with researchers and produce a public facing documentWhat it is to be There.
