These reflection were written by Maeve as soon as I dropped her back home, around an hour after filming.
26/12/2023 White Park Bay ‘PLAY’
Third Line: Thresholds
Coastal setting gave immediate and fully sensory experience of threshold.
To me, ab open doorway to the rest of the world, see the horizon, a natural threshold, a visual third line yet, to me, unquantifiable, infinite and forever beyond.
Dancers // Environment // Capturing
(Both of us)
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Questions of what is my threshold, what is my point of needing to go beyond + when to turn back?
Feeling – physical Emotional – Restrain or respond
Hands →
- the water felt smooth
- the rocket felt jagged + smooth
- the reed felt tight
- the plastic felt familiar but looked unfamiliar
→
- abstracted images, in raw film state, brought most intrigue + feeling
- drew a line in my body to dull senses in order to focus, “If I only think from sleeve → fingers then I can cancel out feeling of stillness in rest of body as well as minimise cold sensations.
BODY / ROCKS →
- time to get to know one another’s body
- face to rock + began to feel more contact at one and less of an intruder
- slight feeling of ‘stepping out’ as was aware of feet not being able to grip due to cold.
- held
- not concerned with anyone outside the cocoon
- human hands exploring human impact on natural material
FEET →
- frustration at not being able to articulate them as I usually do or would like to. Temperature aspect
- decision to dig rather than float, to use natural thresholds to help hold me
- tears as cannot move freely
- channel into determination
- restrictions + designs to surrender mind
✴ Hostility + Beauty of Nature
✴ Started ON but always felt more at ease IN:
- Submerge hand under water
- burrow into rock face as much as possible
- Dig under sand
