Limehouse-Rotherhithe, collaboration with Anne Bean, yellow tafetta, November 2020

Anne is on the Limehouse foreshore and I am on the Rotherhithe foreshore. We make a connection by each placing a piece of yellow taffeta in the water, creating the illusion that it is one long piece that stretches under the Thames. Photographs by Matt Hawkins

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I noticed a similarity between the curves of the spine and the shape of the river Thames - when I overlayed a diagram of the spine onto the Thames I discovered that the site where I was devising the work was equivalent to where I had a spine injury that started in 2017 and caused me chronic pain until 2019. The two shores became vertebra, the river the leaky spinal disc fluid and the pieces of fabric we use to create the illusion of long piece of cloth connecting the two sides together acted as a stitch.

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