Messengers
Parachute, embroidery
220x130x50cm
2020
Suspended in a semi-circle form, a 1958 parachute has been embroidered with excerpts from eyewitness accounts of meteor landings. Each section reflects a first person account of the experience of witnessing this phenomenon, and the meteor falls recounted encompass China in AD 1064, North America in the eighteenth century, Yorkshire in 1795 and Russia in 2013.
The title in part refers to the role of these witnesses in conveying their personal experience, whilst also alluding to the historic associations of meteors as harbingers of change and messages for interpretation. The almost seraphic form of the hanging parachute echoes this sense of a divine messenger, and the awe, fear and wonderment expressed by the witnesses.
Parachute, embroidery
220x130x50cm
2020
Suspended in a semi-circle form, a 1958 parachute has been embroidered with excerpts from eyewitness accounts of meteor landings. Each section reflects a first person account of the experience of witnessing this phenomenon, and the meteor falls recounted encompass China in AD 1064, North America in the eighteenth century, Yorkshire in 1795 and Russia in 2013.
The title in part refers to the role of these witnesses in conveying their personal experience, whilst also alluding to the historic associations of meteors as harbingers of change and messages for interpretation. The almost seraphic form of the hanging parachute echoes this sense of a divine messenger, and the awe, fear and wonderment expressed by the witnesses.
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