Story of Time
Is there is a way of holding in your heart the unknowable - can you love without form, can you love the parts you cannot reach, the darkness which holds everything? The field of undifferentiated night.
Pressure points, radical upheavals, giving way to both destruction and creation. Volcanos are apertures, where one world’s truth spills into another.
Calling to the waters that connect all life, this is about hope in a ‘hopeless’ place. At the shore of a dying sea, what can be done?
A journey through the liquid depths of the burning soul. Nominated for the Prix Pictet. Both expansive and intimate, embodied and anonymous, a story of water in the desert and a walk along the edge of time.
A deterritorialisation of intimacy from human to non-human bodies; an unfolding over land of desire, both specific and expansive.
Poetry created and installed for Parco Dei Sesi, Pantelleria.
An immersive installation at the shore of the Salton Sea created for the Bombay Beach Biennale. Twenty-four gallons of Pacific ocean water were collected and transported to the Salton Sea in southern California.
Conversation 1: Salton Sea, California, USA X Bay of Naples, Mediterranean Sea, Italy
Occupying a space between worlds these objects defy categorisation - animal, vegetable, mineral - phylum, class. They are an invitation to attend to the unknown, the magical, the sensorial.
(time is deep, not long)
Solar power, mirrors, directed sunlight
They say that just before you die your life in its entirety flashes before your eyes. But what if this flashing is less of a flash and more of a vision. . .
A poem in 24 images, created in response to the 1966 film Maidens of Fetish Street for Nicolas Winding Refen’s Vol 4 "Smell of Female", curated by Ben Cobb.
Created for luxury bespoke jewellery brand Ouroboros, featuring four short films and a series of twenty four images.
Created for AnOther Magazine to accompany an anthology of texts compiled by Björk.
“The Icelandic artist gathers together the work of some of the most important post-feminist thinkers of the age . . . Björk has compiled an agenda for hope and reconnection, accompanied here by a dedicated series of imagery created by artist Wanda Orme."
Rambling woman, shot and created for luxury lingerie brand Coco de Mer.
Margo is a threshold, liminal; not quite dissolution.
The meeting of difference requires lubrication. Surely, Margo is a wet place.
Beauty in the in between,
who told you this would be easy?
Thunder from a clear sky means the gods are paying attention.
Water, the unconscious — sex is where we dive in.
Here we do not become animal,
we remember that we are animal.
Created for the Sunday Times Style to mark the release of Margret Atwood's The Testaments.
The voice escapes. Things grow in quiet places, between the cracks. Power and fecundity. Desire is policed, but nature is abundant.
Once I breathed you
What if I told you I can remember everything, an undoing epic and tender. . .
The truth is an act of love
Black oxide and Ash on paper. Created for Art on a Postcard’s International Women’s Day Auction 2022