Not Much Further (2020-2021)
Medium
Performance to camera, sculpture, photography
Keywords
Sacrifice, everyday, trans, pilgrimage, Sisyphus
Exhibition History
• On Queer Ground, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2022)
• Decoder Art, Online (2020)
Images by Claye Bowler and exhibition images by Arlo Lawton
Not Much Further was a performance showing a normal day, how the burden of dysphoria takes affect as soon as leaving the house. Amplifying the feeling that people see the chest first and me second. It’s a normal day but it’s also a sort of pilgrimage, a sacrifice, a longing for something so almost in reach.
Months following the performance, just before getting top surgery, I revisited the rocks to see what may have been left. There was some hunks of plaster in the grass, damaged by the elements and decaying. I impromptu drew the motifs of the surgery that had been circulating my head for years onto these rocks.
Funders/Commissioners
• Decoder