'Wisdom' (2013) Taken from the 'Translucence' project

HD Digital video, colour, sound, 1'25 (looping)

Music: 'Sweet Wisdom', Donna McKevitt, from 'Translucence', Warner Classics, 1998

'The further one goes / The less one knows'

Derek Jarman, 'Chroma', Vintage, 1994/2000, p.112.

The 'Translucence' series serves as a reflection on the fragility of life, investigating Waterman's experience of mourning and loss. The collection of moving image works, 'February', 'Against' and 'Wisdom', interpret three instrumental tracks from Donna McKevitt’s musical score, 'Translucence' (Warner Classics, 1998), based on Derek Jarman's writing. 

'Wisdom', is a stop-frame animation sequence that uses digital snapshots taken over a three year period from Easter 2010 to Easter 2013. The work documents Waterman's familial relationships, together with the changing seasons, to create a sense of time passing, with rituals being re-enacted and return visits to the same locations, in particular, her Mother's home on the Isle of Wight.