MA work and thinking

Stills from "This World is so Beautiful" video projection 

My MA show piece was a video projection entitled "This World is so Beautiful"
It was based on narrative recorded at St Josephs hospice in East London. The narrator is a young woman talking about her experience of diagnosis and treatments for cancer in her brain.
My imagery sought to draw on her descriptions of medical investigations and to capture the medical objective viewpoint. I wanted to create a tension between the objective "beauty" of the internal landscape of the body, and the narrator's description of the devastating impact of the illness on her life.
During the MA I felt more and more that my art practice needs to have some kind of community engagement, in fact it emerges from engagement with people, from their stories and narratives.
I now feel I need to actively seek out these community engagement situations to develop my practice further.                                                                  

           Whilst on the MA, I developed an interest in  storytelling as a means of portraiture, as a means of making sense of our encounters with another, and thereby of our own selves. I continue to be interested in the possibilities of fragmenting text and sound, alongside a more narrative component to my work.