The Hearse Series includes:

Centre Line Hearse

Fistula Hearse

Hearse Path

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Centre Line Hearse and Fistula Hearse are both 8 Minute video performances featuring myself and my mother. Taking a toy hearse found in the medicine cabinet of our house we both roll the car around two significant points on the body for the process of dialysis. While my mother rolls the car in the area in a seemingly random motion, cruising the vehicle towards her shoulder and across her entire chest, my own performance consisted of circling the car in the area I remembered the marks being on her body.

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In my own performance, I considered the physical responses of repetitive circling. Over time my skin became red and marked itself, almost a sympathetic marking. I also had physical responses such as heat on my chest or a buzzing feeling in the area of the fistula and having had felt my mother's fistula buzz it could have been my mind projecting the response to feel more understanding of how her new body behaves.

It then considers themes of embodiment, re-enactment, mutual bodies, empathy, archival bodies, and meditations on mortality. 

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Hearse Path instead takes the car and a piece of paper used to censor the piece 'Medical Brochures (but only the parts I read)'. the video shows the toy hearse pushed to drive over the paper repeatedly. The force used harkens back to themes in my work of repetition used as a tool to unfold emotional responses.  The piece ends after the paper has been disrupted to the point where the car becomes parallel to the paper. I have always considered the metaphorical weight of not only the hearse (and more specifically a toy hearse) but the paper in conjunction with the themes of censoring in relation to the 'Medical Brochures' piece.