Jera May
Materially my tendency is to work with something, an environment, an object, an old drawing, map or story. Making use of its original values or context I reconfigure and intervene, install, add, arrange, cast, draw, film, or act, to articulate endeavours, consider philosophies and understand occurrences. Sometimes personal sometimes cultural sometimes cosmological.
I am neurodiverse and not quite fitting in has created an endless questioning of norms which has driven my practice. Exploring themes of power, system thinking and proposals for alternative structures, forms and possibilities. I have been reflecting on recent changes in perspectives and new understanding of equity, race, religion, gender, and mankind’s impact on and with our environment alongside more expanded ideas on the possibility and the interconnectedness of our existence.
Writing on 'The Delirium of Joy', The artist and writer Ambrosine Allen describes;
“I felt what May had created was a kind of ghostly archive, where real landscapes are layered with inner more metaphorical landscapes and connections are formed between past and present, fact and fiction. I left thoughtful about the idea of 'sculptural film', impressed by both the physical power of the installation and the romantic illusions of the projected media, seduced by how you can get lost somewhere in-between.”
