fold, enfold, unfold, mirror, absorb

These origami works are made from my parents’ abandoned Encyclopaedia Britannica set, which they purchased when they were expecting me. The making invoked a patience and often a process of transitioning into meditative states. Each carefully crafted crane – of which there are thousands – is still. The Encyclopedia and its words remain physically present but unreadable.

It is believed that if you fold 1 000 paper cranes, your wishes will come true. Sadako Sasaki was living in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan on 6 August 1945, inflicting her with the ‘A-bomb disease’, leukaemia, at the age of eleven. Ten years later, she died, having folded 1 300 paper cranes.

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If the skull is the seat of thought the pelvis is the seat of passion, the birthing point, a place of sensuality and sexuality. This video work is borne out of the melting of wax pelvises originally created in the process of making bronze Pelvises during the time of my pregnancy. A further component of the work comes in the form of music created through whispers and responsive sound generated in response to image in motion, resulting in a series of transitioning, Rorschach-like visuals and motifs to which vocalist Bongile Gorata Lecoge-Zulu calls and respond.

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