SIGILS FOR COMMUNICATION

Glowing red grids occasionally reveal the subtle movements of unseen figures. I think there are interesting overlaps between ghosts and prey animals (skilled in camouflage, hiding in undisturbed places, bolting when spotted...) This work began seeing ghost hunters on TV. Tune into Most Haunted or Ghost Adventures and you'll see people barging into haunted spaces, demanding proof, insisting a spirit show itself. Watching them made me think about bloodsports and the language of paranormal investigation (hunting, capturing, detecting) and why we so often fear that which is elusive. The title comes from Algernon Blackwood’s short story The Kit Bag (1908), words that resonated as an eventual prompt for the performer and shaped how the work unfolded. What begins as a meditation on ghosts gradually moves toward the living: to those of us who are marginalised, invisible, or forced to exist on the edges. The work also exists on the periphery, in quiet movements and subtle presences. Who is the hunter and who is the hunted?