Corroding Towards Dusk a series of performance for camera Photographic works.

Corroding Towards Dusk Near, Within. Are a pair of photographic works of a performance for camera filmed at Godrevy Point at the far eastern point of St Ives Bay in Cornwall. The contrasting pair incorporate the external forces of the sea and the erosion of layers of my butch/masc identity in relation to ageing. Corroding Toward Dusk (within) depicts my body within the enclosed space of a rocky inlet. Corroding Toward Dusk (near) depicts a close up of the terrain of skin and hair mapped by the sun re ecting in the salt water. Paired together the works explore internal and external landscapes both drawing the viewer into a dark composition and confronting them with the exposed surface of the body through the watery lens of the sea. The coastal landscape crashes and ows with abrasive renewal and is explored in this work alongside the materiality of the body whislt considering fragility of built up layers of identity threatened by illness, ageing and corrosion.

These pair of works were made in response to the Cartwright Hall collection with support from an a-n professional development bursary and Arts Council England, and have been excepted into the permanent art collection of Bradford Galleries and Museums, and Currently being exhibited at Cartwright Hall Bradford.

Accompanying En Plein Air writing which was wrote at Cape Cornwall during a storm, As a stream of consciousness intertwining the landscape with internal thoughts and feelings about my body.

Hot

Battered

Scarred

Cold

Chiseled

Aging

Wearing

Tough

Exterior 

Soft

Tender

Cut

Bleeding

Breathing

Throwing Punches

Hitting Walls

Standing 9 feet tall

Now sinking

Battered down

Chip on shoulder chiselled

Stubbornness stubbed out 

Black

cast

Shadow

White

piercing

Beating

Bleeding

Breathing

Slowly grieving

Time