“I hope this finds you well”, video, sound, cyanotype prints on old mill and Bristol paper, storage media, various objects, 2025
this installation unfolds in two parts:
(1) a 5-minute video montage
created using cyanotype prints, images developed through a light-sensitive solution of ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide — when exposed to sunlight, these prints reveal deep blue tones, further toned with materials found in the sender’s home, such as coffee, tea, and turmeric. it is then accompanied by field recordings and an original score, layering sounds and images into an archive of a place on the brink.
the sequence unfolds like a dream, piecing together fragments of life on the island: children laughing and playing in a river that no longer exists, a tree felled to make way for wider roads, the warmth of a typical afternoon on the island, the sounds of the city, a public market in the morning, a memory of a private wound folded into a larger loss.
(2) a package
a weathered box holding remnants of this vanished land and the person who was once shaped by it. inside are the original cyanotype prints used in the video, a flash drive preserving the film, and objects and a scent once carried by the person.
an island. memories. a person. the audience becomes the recipient of a message from a land that once was. how do we hold onto a place, a home, a history when climate change threatens to wash it all away.
(1) a 5-minute video montage
created using cyanotype prints, images developed through a light-sensitive solution of ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide — when exposed to sunlight, these prints reveal deep blue tones, further toned with materials found in the sender’s home, such as coffee, tea, and turmeric. it is then accompanied by field recordings and an original score, layering sounds and images into an archive of a place on the brink.
the sequence unfolds like a dream, piecing together fragments of life on the island: children laughing and playing in a river that no longer exists, a tree felled to make way for wider roads, the warmth of a typical afternoon on the island, the sounds of the city, a public market in the morning, a memory of a private wound folded into a larger loss.
(2) a package
a weathered box holding remnants of this vanished land and the person who was once shaped by it. inside are the original cyanotype prints used in the video, a flash drive preserving the film, and objects and a scent once carried by the person.
an island. memories. a person. the audience becomes the recipient of a message from a land that once was. how do we hold onto a place, a home, a history when climate change threatens to wash it all away.
