FLORENCE AUSTIN
'A haunting'
That drop picks up the ghost
and shoves it there with things underground.
I can find a presence
if I try sleepwalking.
If I force the plaster until it bleeds
in a certain way.
There's that point in the night
picking at the wallpaper.
I can see someone
peeling back.
The ghost pinches,
becomes sentient
and loses grip.
BY FLORENCE AUSTIN
2021
Text and animation
FINDING THE GHOSTS
‘A haunting’ deals with histories and the uncovering of ghosts. With this project came a lot of ‘figuring out’ and much of the exhibited work documents the frustrations I’ve come across in making. Working with animations became a way to untie these frustrations through repetitive movements and playful imagery. It became a process of documenting the search for the histories of a space and I combined animation with fragmentary writings to explore this. I engaged with an ‘imagined reality’ of ghosts and colliding histories, and the work began to occupy a space of creatures and haunted houses. A narrative of digging and unravelling took place to find them and I will continue to work through these methods as my practice continues.
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