The Delrium of Joy

Delirium of Joy is one of a series of rafts I made out of deconstructing my bedroom, including the floor, ceiling, architrave,  windows etc during a self build project. They all have a projected component this one is a film of sea birds flying and diving  projected into a seascape painting that used to hang on my bedroom wall.

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.”