Try Calling and There is No one There 2021
Try Calling and There is No one There was created during pandemic and selected as part of the Bethlem Gallery Open Call. It is currently on exhibition at the Maudsley Hospital in South East London.
Try Calling And There Is No-one There. A symphony in backstitch flows with personal geographies moving towards oblivion. No-one told me I’d been liberated. There is no climate news today. There is every shade of weather, but no climate news today. No climate news today. There is no climate news today. The scientists are politicised. Science decentres. There is war in the Kingdom of Man. Business as usual. There is no climate news today., 2021.
Blackwork style of embroidery.
30cm x 45cm.
I walk the Sussex Downsland. Leonard Cohen sings “Hineini, Hineini”. I stop. I look to the path behind me. I look ahead. I cry out loud. And then I cry some more. Not long ago and not far away. I remember. Every day. In each stitch a requiem. I cry for the animals burnt in the blaze of an arsonists flames. And one last time, before Virginia Woolf’s house comes in to view, I stand in the empty path and cry for humanity. I look at the map of the world showing which countries have vaccinated most of their people against Covid, and it looks like an essay in 18th Century colonial imperialism. “Who the fuck are you to be so privileged?” Mea Culpa, 2021.
Cotton, silk and Evenweave linen for the Blackwork style of Embroidery. 33cm x 23cm.