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Holding Shards

Holding Shards is a performance-to-camera video work exploring iconoclasm, loss, and the hope of transformation. The protagonist is a smashed stained-glass saint, who performs gestures of tenderness, lament and wonder. Filmed on location primarily in Wales, the work takes the viewer into places of ritual and regrowth.

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An arena, a threshold, an ascent

March Towards the End of the World III

Small Actions for the Death Strip

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