Statement

Playpoem V is part of a series of videos and performances inspired by Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. Published in 1931, she called it her “play-poem”. In these works, I imagine myself as Virginia Woolf with a camera and a desire to play with bodies of text, hands, the tide, the repetitiveness of waves, the ocean and the land. This thought guided the making of these works during a two-year residency at the Université de Moncton and Mount Allison University, Sackville in New Brunswick. Students, friends, the ocean and the land were active participants. I was also thinking of the works of Samuel Beckett.