An interactive performance via phone call. Draw to Perform Symposium. ]Performance Space[ London (2013)

My grandmother has always been a somewhat mysterious character to me, having never really known her well. She had recently moved to a nursing home, at the time and had consequently left behind most of her possessions, knowing that she would not be able to take them to the new place. I felt moved by this process of letting go of a lifetime worth of things, and the fact that she took with her only a handful of photographs. I wanted to mark this moment of transition and also to preserve it somehow. After she had moved out, I went to her house one last time to explore. I wanted to try to piece together fragmented memories of being there as a child and to look at the photographs that she left behind.

Back at the gallery space, a table was laid out with a pad of paper, a pen and a mobile phone with my number as the only contact in it. Visitors were invited to sit down, close their eyes and phone me. Each time someone called, I described what I could see, and told stories about the objects, letters and photographs that I found. Whilst I spoke, they drew on the paper from my descriptions.

The resulting drawings became little fragments of the exploration. Fragments of fragmented memories.