Wrapping for a marginal citizen

Wrapping for a marginal citizen, 1994 is a 12 metre long cloth with 21 to 24 identical images of my 6 month old son staring directly at the camera. The various texts underneath each image 'read' as a sort of monologue-come-dialogue. They reflect comments made to me when I had a baby with me on a train, in a gallery, or on the street.

It is also a piece about looking at the diverse and our definitions of what is central or normal in society. I want to create the feeling that you, the viewer, are like the cloth that hangs around the wall. To feel the position of standing (at the edge of society) or watching from the margins.


The video of the same name is quasi-biographical in that I use my own art objects to tell stories, just as the children tell stories in their playing. Two voices: a cynical one and an optimistic one 'converse' as images of eggs being played with, being forced into transparent egg-cups, being eaten and being broken merge between images of my art objects being played with by the children.

• Movement for Mother and Child performance, 2002.
  
• Wrapping for a Marginal Citizen: the video, 1994.