Lines and lines and lines and lines...

8th May 2016
Turner Contemporary Gallery, Margate

This piece was specially created for Margate seafront and presented as part of Looping the Loop Festival. It belongs to a durational strand of my practice that explores the intricacies of identity through a visual and task-based vocabulary. Combining land art and live performance, this day-long piece began by collecting local chalk stones from Margate Sands (near the tidal pool). Weighed down by this baggage, I dragged a large chalk bolder from the beach, all along the seafront promenade, towards Turner Contemporary Gallery, trailing a white chalk line behind me. Upon arrival, the large bolder was smashed against the ground and, in an absurdist fashion, I then began the impossible task of attempting to map all the journeys (large and small) made by me and the passing audience. The piece thus drew a direct link between our geographical transience and our multi-layered sense of identity and belonging.