Ghost Floating Legs
Shown at: FirstSite, Colchester, United Kingdom (2018) | ‘Spinal’, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2019)

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Duration, 6’3″

The First World War produced the greatest number of amputated limbs, especially when soldiers lost arms and legs as a result of stepping on mines. These bodies without limbs, and limbs without bodies, became ‘phantoms’  for each other, especially when recovering soldiers continued to complain of aches and itches in the limbs that were no longer attached to their bodies, producing a neurological (and in some senses, spiritual and phenomenological) puzzle that would fox scientists and doctors for a long time. 
Ghost Floating Legs is an exercise in the invocation of these phantom limbs and their absent presence on the skin and soul of time.