From my initial proposal I have moved forward into expressing the notions of attachment and separateness, through the media of photography, textiles, free association writing and into performance.

The way in which these medias have highlighted the discourse in which one may be experiencing is expressed through certain words, with in the performance piece, mapping out the breaking of two entities. Weather it is a mother/daughter relationship being expressed or just questions two a much deeper level of understanding through relationships with one another. This is left initially up to the audience’s own interpretation.

The media, to aid the recorded performance, was hard to come by, but by using a projector in such a small space, I felt the piece was not experienced in an intimate context to how I first initial initialled. The space in which it was shown also had side effects to the nature of the piece in the way the acoustics interfered with the reading of the piece making it even more disjointed than first intelled. This did have an advantage, as the viewer almost became lost with in what was happening and could only hold onto a few words, which is quite similar to that of an recollection of a dream or a memory.

But acquiring a space which is not known to the public, and also out of bounds, could lead to now one actually experiencing something so intimate, unless coming across it by accident. Which could lead to the interpretation of it changing making it be seen as something of desire, or even erotic in the sense of it being hidden and therefore forbidden. I think that this would not be so, if this was presented outside of its original context, I think that perhaps it should be displayed in a long corridor, which the viewer enters. With every short distance taken along the corridor the viewer will experience the sound piece getting louder, As if more than one voice is questioning another. This will then lead into the recorded performance, which would become out of a more womb shaped object, which the viewer would be encapsulated into focusing on, with the voices still immersing around you. Showing similarities to that of an experience with the conscious questioning the viewers own integrity of the visual. By the viewer no longer in a public space but now in someone else’s private space.

In light of supporting this piece through theoretical analysis, From Jacque Lacan to Rosemary Betterton, and artists practices From Mary Kelly to Mona Hautoum I have drawn similarities which have helped me to overcome challenges, with in my own practice.

Lacan’s mirror stage has enlightened me in the way in which the child recognises its self, through its own reflection in the mirror between the ages of 6 – 18 months, it then rejects the mirror in light of finding its own ego and becoming engaged in the world around it. This notion has been true, through the way in which my daughter has expressed her own adaptations to this absorbed through to rejection of the mirror. This can be seen in photographic series of 3 – 7 months.

This has enabled my development, from these initial transformations, which took place from her own interactions with me, from the moment we become individuals, by the act of the umbilical cord being cut. Which is also something which Mona Hatoum is exploring through her video piece Measures of distance, as feminist writer, Rosemary Betterton, elaborates on in ‘An Intimate Distance, Chapter 7, Identities, Memories, Desires’, By saying:

“ These multilayered images, texts and fragments of ‘mother tongue’, as well as the sadness of the speaking voice, suggest a broken yet continuing dialogue between mother and daughter over distance and time………………..But the written word also becomes the ‘life-line’, an umbilical cord that connects daughter to mother.” (Pgs 189 -190)

This has not appeared to be the consciousness stream of investigation of re-acting the way in which the umbilical cord connects internally, but how the thread of external bonds with in the mother- daughter relationship have stretched and sometimes broken through the distance and time spent away from one- another. Taking on the stereotype separateness in which the father usually has, as they are at work, and not so attached as the mother.