My Kear, 
Dydh Yw Yn-hys

My Dear, You Are Home. 

The idea of home is not inherently linked to the land. Where our physical selves inhabit space is not always where our spiritual occupation travels to. Memory embeds the land with meaning, pulls us towards it and creates spaces of high spiritual significance. My question is - how can we better take notice, or rather experience, collective spiritual connection in a way that will heal us as a society and as individuals? Many things simply pass us by in this world and before we catch ourselves taking for granted our environment, we leave this plane of matter and join the earth beneath us. 

My body of work is drawn to the land, privileged locations, storytelling and folklore.  The paper mobile acts as a funnel of spiritual energy, channelling memory into the shells below. The spiral signifying how we will continue to spin with no beginning and no end, the shells purify the past and connects us to the intangible realm just beyond our vision. As the magician must make her own tools, this vessel combined with the tarot, brings all the tenses to one landscape, for us to experience as a community.

 

What can we learn from the frequencies our ears can no longer receive?

 

What to us has been lost to the wind?

The accompanying body of work acts a continuous ritual throughout the length of the exhibition. I will begin this by taking part in my own tarot reading in each layout – when I leave, this becomes the past. The next individual that comes along will reshuffle the cards and do their own reading – this is the present – then leave the cards waiting, for the future reading to be taken. This cycle, or spiral, will continue to spin, generating spiritual energy that unites past, present and future on one plane of matter to be felt by the viewers in growing intensity. 

Memory flows down through the cone of matter, bridging the gap between folklore and our reality. The tales here are being retold in order for them to survive; as folklore is a symbiotic, living, breathing entity, if it does not fit the needs of the culture it will die. Creating a new reading of an old text or lore is nothing new, it is a practice that has been adapted over generations as fairy tales are shaped by the intent of their teller and their audiences. We ingest these tales from a young age, situate them deep within our bodies as they shape our aspirations and dreams for us to unwillingly act out the roles we are taught.

Women are the clear leaders of folklore. A folk group that contains a whisper network for their safety has been downplayed and villainised as trivial gossip when in fact, despite their oppression and marginalisation, the beliefs, warnings and knowledges of women persists. I am not adding tales to an existing folk group but instead, creating a parallel where we asses our connection to the spiritual pull of the natural world and what we can learn from the women who came before us through their folklore. At this intersection, the power of ritual is incredibly important in helping us to asses the way we are connected to the land.

Does everything need to change?

What messages are the cards carrying from the other realm?

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(Goldsmiths Fine Art and Art History BA Degree Show 2025)