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MARGIN OF ABSENCE was part of the Selected Bibliography
exhibition in the historic Morrab library at Penzance in July 2007.

3 Flowers, Photoetching

Listener in the exhibition space at the Morrab Library

For the Selected Bibliography exhibition I chose to explore the notion of preservation with material from my personal sound archives. I worked with sound material captured on magnetic tape twenty years ago and the piece consists of three generations of voices; my maternal grandmother, my mother and myself, thus creating a tonal narrative, a distant memory now broken in translation.

The listener is invited into the intimacy of this aged conversation that offers
a meeting place for both public and private as well as linguistic and non-linguistic readings. The act of recording has an element of capturing and freezing the fleeting moment, providing a return to a distant place, which no longer is, and where the abstraction of the tonal dialogue and storytelling is taking slices of time away from its original context. Something, which would have otherwise been forgotten, has been preserved and is open to breathe again through new interpretations.

Sound installation consisted of a sound piece: 4.00 min , etching and translated text

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More information:
www.selectedbibliography.co.uk                      
www.morrablibrary.co.uk
www.morecornwall.org