the tending triptych brings together two aural-visual artworks that trace loss in the tempo of an other, and a durational work drawing on rituals of mourning in which performers make a sacred place within the everyday environment.   Perhaps we connect to an other partly through shared tempos, and so, in some ways, mourning is a process of feeling significant changes in that shared tempo. Imagining a future of loss in the tempo of an other is, perhaps, painful and traumatic.

Here, the sacred becomes a place within which to re-connect to the movements of life and in which there is the potential to dance again with an other.   The performance involves planning the planting and growing of flowers throughout four seasons, and over the year tending with care and love a space that is replenished with flowers .   This 'everyday performance' takes place away from the gallery, away from the computer screen, and calls for a fragilising and making vulnerable of the self so as to create a potential for healing.

still images of flowers | still image of rationale | still images of performance