Approaching Viriditas (Epilogue), 2019

An egg that won't crack. A mermaid who wants to do the splits. A breast that won't lactate. A pelican that pecks itself. Approaching Viriditas (Epilogue) is a performance-to-camera video work, building on a series of live works made in 2018. These works develop a language to discuss the experience of fertility treatment. Viriditas is a concept associated with the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen - a notion of spiritual 'greening' which here is applied to the female body. Performative action is layered with readings of Hildegard's texts, and coded watercolour drawings. This work is supported by a bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company; and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.