film instillation @ Mid Wales Arts
15 April – 23 May
We Make Space for the Arts in Mid Wales
TROI | TURNING
go with the flow | mae’r rhôd yn troi
The work is meditation on life giving water and the ever turning wheel of life.
This film is about turning – turning the experience of distancing into the experience of closeness, turning a negative image into a positive, the absence of familiar visual and sound becoming a space in which we are ready to see and listen. It is a visual and musical response to flowing water and its mythical magical wonder.
The ink drawings, haiku poems, film and music combines the sense of poetic subtlety, colour, light and movement to bring human emotion and a reflective river to life, which in turn, encapsulates the sense of the human spirit confronting the Climate Crisis and overcoming obstacles in an engaging way. The works is a response to nature combining a sense of physical and mental wellness, showing the flow of water. My intention with the work is chrystalise the sense of wonder for something that defines Wales and humanity.
These drawing and poems are a response to the change.
Ultimately, the fluidity of circumstance.
What is essential for haiku is simplicity, a belief it shares with Japanese Zen Buddhism. Being simple is an important value represented in Japanese culture and in the beauty of life. Traditional Japanese artwork, for example, leaves large spaces on its drawings. In this way, the art invites youto actively interpret this most simplified and intuitive act of communication. Likewise, haiku refrains from too many words and phrases; thus, it is considered important to leave subtle overtones of the haiku to the reader’s own interpretation. In sum, haiku represents the beauty of simplicity.
The overarching theme of the work is a re-connecting with nature, and the flow and fluidity of flowing water. The work explores the metaphorical statement of life moving in circles.
Troi | Turning explores the flow of the life enhancing water and life in the sea, stream, rivers, lakes and waterfalls. Embrace the fluidity.
And simplicity.
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This album has been an adventure | antur to make – a bit like plunging in to the North Sea without a wetsuit, swimming towards the rainbow! No, it’s not me on the front cover, but I’m in awe of these women, with their orange floats, who swam at North Berwick on a wet winter’s day. The album is dedicated to love and laughter, and days that unfold – a doorway to delight.
La Boca
Tulips
Trelew
Andes