installation with 3-channel HD video (13:59) and sculptures

You whisper, 

How howl midnight London babies and how whisper late night rivers and wolf children and old cold houses and blood spilled in Hackney streets, best friends off Old Kent Road and you whisper, lean on me, learn from me, it’s all better with you. 

Still sometimes, 

Blood comes from an early morning car crash,
Blood comes gushing as I cut the nails of my dog,
Blood comes when leading heart or NHS C-section surgery,
Blood comes every month and when I cry, 

Blood comes from when you hit my head on your knees, blood comes from first days of breast-feeding, blood comes from a new human, blood comes from a broken animal, blood comes from a nose when you lean on me. Blood comes from a drunken no-helmet bike crash on Lower Clapton Road. Blood comes from when I’m always here for you and with you, my blood comes. Blood comes when it's twilight and all else, blood comes when I think of you, blood comes, or maybe tears sometimes.

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The three-channel video-installation takes its starting point from a commonly held - yet incorrect - belief that blood contains the same amount of salt as sea water. Three narrators - a teardrop, a drop of Golden blood and a droplet of sweat - tell their own stories of love and loss. The video is driven by a poetic text: an intimate verse with an ambiguity that delivers a metanarrative for lost and found identity, a scarred planet and our ever-changing world. The video was shot as a part of the Below Zero Art Prize in London in 2023. 

Produced by: Beaconsfield London in association with the Finnish Institute UK + Ireland and Serlachius Museums, Finland.

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