One Day This Glass Will Break (after Cornelia Parker)
This work began in response to Cornelia Parker’s lightbulb photograms. After seeing the works in Bristol, I wrote a series of poems that developed into a short sequence. But as long as the words remained on the flat plane of the page they weren’t doing what they said. So I began experimenting with fragmenting the text. First digitally - no good, too flat. Then physically - with lightbulb and paper.
The final work documents, in a series of scans (fake photograms), the text breaking apart from the lightbulb.
This work performs an audiovisual counterpart to the fragmentation of the original photograms.
One Day This Glass Will Break (after Cornelia Parker) has been performed in Cardiff (Projectivisms, 2018), Galsfryn (Black Mountain College: A Celebration, 2018) and Bratislava (Ars Poetica, 2018).