Breakfast Summoning

‘Breakfast Summoning’, (2022-24), Mixed Media (wet strength tissue, highlighter pen, watercolour pencils and paint, felt-tip pen, air drying clay, water soluble oil paint, papier mache, poster paint, biro, fineliner, corn flakes, orange juice, painted eggs).

The Breakfast Summoning was an installation and performance that took place in Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle, as part of the exhibition What Are Words Worth. 

Using objects and wearing a costume made using dream images, I invited the audience into an intimate dream-space, performing a version of the song ‘Dreams’, by Fleetwood Mac, through a vocal distortion mic.

It was an attempt at long distance connection, based upon ‘Hypnodreamdruff’ (1996) by Georgina Starr (an installation my friends and I were ejected from for drawing on as teenagers). I told the audience the story and asked them to help me summon the energy and attitude needed to connect to those friends and complete the work. 

I lay my head on an image of Lea Torp Nielsen's face and closed my eyes. I described the images that came to me and friends from the audience drew their interpretations on the tablecloth using wax crayons. 

We finished by singing ‘Dreams’ by Gabriele.