Bound by Longing,
Video Performance and live Performance, 2016

I carry these bound memories that consist of pages, filled with experiences that are passed on to me and have experienced myself. I have heard the stories and felt the moments as if they were my own: like songs that I know every lyric too. There are some pages that are filled with silence and some are my own. The binding is apart of the female experience: living for the family as a granddaughter, a daughter and a carer. I pile my binding recollections, one by one: each album adding more weight that I need to balance. They are the weight of my self: my inherited herstory, my responsibilities and my own history. I push them up to create space for new memories that I long for, but the balancing act makes me sway. I keep pushing and piling, in hope that I make a space that will create new moments to be bound by.