Arts Thread

‘Land of Lonely’ explores an imaginary place where one tries to understand what it means to be lonely. It is a multifaceted series, a hybrid between photography and painting which encompasses performance, film, sound and a technique I’ve developed entitled acetone manipulation. Land of Lonely is an introspective analysis of female queer aloneness whilst living in a city surrounded by people but isolated amid the crowd. This series unmasks my deepest feelings of desolation, anxiety, tiredness, existentialism and loss. The soundtrack is a collaboration with my brother Thomas, an Irish session musician. This composition incorporates a blend of my vocals, piano and synthesizers which reverberate slowly in tune with the melody of bird songs from the original footage. It is a reflective echo of the thoughts that live inside my head. The location for this body of work is the field behind my childhood home. A place which grounds me, but, at the same time, creates a painful, self-imposed isolation. Pushing my body to its physical limits in the cold, my senses were slow, hurt and overwhelmed. Yet, in this experience, I found serenity and learned the art of being alone.