A Self-Portrait of My Mother in Two Places (The Performance Space Sydney 1987) was a combined installation with Roger Crawford. In one room of The Performance Space Crawford created an evocative work to a mother he never knew. In the adjacent room, I built a lattice tower and projected hundreds of photos of my mother on all sides, trying to paint fragments of the images as the slides relentlessly changed in their carousels. This process was a response to the impossibility of painting a singular portrait of someone so well known, yet also such a mystery. The conversations with visitors about their complex relationships with their own mothers became part of the work.
Materials: wooden lattice, boards, wood, slide projectors, paint.
