Tunnel Vision 

child's play tunnel with appliquéd fabric lettering

2012

 

film (above) and stills (below) 

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The words adoring this childs play tunnel are taken from the diaries I kept during inpatient treatment for anorexia. The tunnel size is a deliberate choice reflecting both the child-esque stature sufferers of anorexia can return to and our child-like state of dependance, of being mentally and physically incapable of caring for oneself. It’s colourfulness (intenseness) draws you in, like a moth to a flame. A lure, a visual representation of lure of the negative voices that exist inside.

 

This work exists in two parts, the film as above and the object itself (which when displayed as an installation is designed to be fiddled with, twisted, crawled through, if you can fit).

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