I get involved in a lot of film projects and have for years been taking on one project after another in my free time. Although there's a lot of newness involved in that, sometimes I feel that for no better reason than shaking ones creativity up a bit and opening up new areas in your connection to things, it's good to step outside the box of what you do and challenge yourself. So I impulsively stepped into a different kind of artistic expression with by joining an exhibition around a manifesto for Love and producing an interactive art installation Buried Roots of Love that came from the deepest and most personal parts of my life, and as with a good deal of my work, it was based in, and created with love.I'm still processing the whole experience of the last couple of days which was just a phenomenal melding of talent aside from my own foray into art but I think I am learning to make new connectivity to the things I produce that will hopefully connect with the complex and universal human themes that touch us all.
Here's a little about the piece.
Love comes from our most primal survival needs. It is a symbol of our bonds to family, to procreation, to tie us to the Earth itself and bring us back to it. Life comes from love. We all have buried roots.
In the woodland burial grounds where I walk, where my mother is buried, where my family visit, and where I too will lie beneath the ground one day and feed my bones back to the life that lives in that place, I am filled with love.
These photographs along with family letters, remembrances and photos formed part of my interactive installation art piece at the Seasons of Love exhibition run by Creative Collective over Valentines this year. Big love to all who assisted me in this very personal project and who took time to interract with it in the space.
