Early this year I lost my mum. It’s been hard coming to terms with that. Funnily enough part of that process has been to re-visit the creative ways I dealt with grief when I lost my Dad in 2009. It’s his birthday today. He would have been 90.
Over the next seven days I will post a re-edited version of my Creative Grief Practice (I just made that up), that culminated in ‘Little Blue Man’. Re-visiting this work is helping me process losing mum.
Gate One is set in a garden. I am embodying my dad, the ancestors and the Waterfield Family Tree. ‘Little Blue Man’ is a walking performance project exploring grief, memory, ancestry, ex-service social clubs and familial mythology. This segmented performance film in seven sections is the culmination of several indoor and outdoor explorations and photo journeys over time.