Celestial Fragmentation of the Everyday: A Soft Dialogue Between My Memories and Domestic Spaces Through Painting, Moving Image, and Poetry

Abstract

This practice-led research explores the fluctuation and physicality of memories situated within my daily life's spaces and rituals using painting, moving image, and poetry. Through constant reminiscing I find myself returning to the domestic spaces in my life, such as bedrooms and kitchen windowsills, and how they flow alongside and throughout my memories. Memory is split into two modes: voluntary and involuntary. Involuntary embodied experiences are woven together with memories, and voluntary memory is prompted by personal images and videos. The fluctuating nature of memories emerges as its own mode of making alongside these two modes of recollection. How these two modes continuously layer and influence one another is the approach echoed throughout my practice, forming a non-linear body of work with no distinct beginning or end. I investigate how magical realism and celestial language and imagery can further enhance the sensations of my memories and disrupt linearity. A soft dialogue is crafted between my modes of making and installation methods, exploring how they continue to carry and fragment durational time through their fluid interactions.