The Mother as Stunt Performer
The Mother as Stunt Performer is a generous, gentle and complex study of mothering, identity, loss, gain and unconditional love through the lens of neurodiversity. An expansive body of new work exploring adaptative care and education in a broken system, expertise as protection and hope through radical connection.
I am The Mother as Stunt Performer
This is my story.
The Stunt Performer’s paradox, where illusionary techniques deny their existence to the audience, creates a cloak of invisibility suturing them to their star, whilst The Mother’s use of repetition, rehearsal and visualisation is coupled to her removal from the frame.
The Mother as Stunt Performer is a generous, gentle and complex study of mothering, identity, loss, gain and unconditional love through the lens of neurodiversity. An expansive body of new work exploring adaptative care and education in a broken system, expertise as protection and hope through radical connection.
I am The Mother as Stunt Performer
This is my story.
The Stunt Performer’s paradox, where illusionary techniques deny their existence to the audience, creates a cloak of invisibility suturing them to their star, whilst The Mother’s use of repetition, rehearsal and visualisation is coupled to her removal from the frame.
The back of a child's head, with a blue hoodie covering their hair, looking out across a body of water and strands of hair blowing in the breeze
Chapter One - A portrait of The Mother
A film to be made with technical, financial and mentoring support from Exeter Phoenix Gallery, through the Southwest Moving Image Commission 2022 (to be produced over the year)
The film will present a portrait of doubling, masking and rehearsing, through the layering of a script over gentle and intimate images of The Mother being measured for, and learning to weave a wig under the watchful eye of Louise, a master wig maker and mother. The sequences will be framed close to the head and hands, so that ears become landscapes and the balding of The Mother's head is not for shock value but a record of two female sculptors discussing materiality.
The film will present a portrait of doubling, masking and rehearsing, through the layering of a script over gentle and intimate images of The Mother being measured for, and learning to weave a wig under the watchful eye of Louise, a master wig maker and mother. The sequences will be framed close to the head and hands, so that ears become landscapes and the balding of The Mother's head is not for shock value but a record of two female sculptors discussing materiality.
A ponytail mounted on a head block in the wig maker's workshop