Mother Island (Part 1), 2024. HD Video and original sound.
Two children and their mother are stranded on an imaginary island and set out to explore two worlds: their own reenactment of pandemic lockdown set against the real-life reenactment of a 1960’s island shipwreck. A magical layering of truth and fiction unfolds replete with a fantastical cardboard house, a boat on wheels, and years of drawings and sculptures co-created by me and my children. In the world of Mother Island the viewer traverses an intertextual landscape of complex feelings about the isolation of motherhood, the creativity of surviving childhood, and the ethics of care for one another and the environment.