Softly Subversive
Over the past year and a half, I’ve been interacting with marks of division across segregated areas in Belfast using a simple heart sticker — a quiet gesture that has gradually taken on a life of its own, collecting meaning, reactions, and stories along the way.
'Piece by Piece'
Mended by a stranger...
The beginning
December, 2023. Climbing to over derogatory term, the I notice the barbed wire and wondered what I could do with the stickers. This work has also now become about not only the marks, or letters, but about atmosphere. I do not cover up, I engage. A year and a half later, many people are now used to these hearts, has it become apart of the visual landscape?
Lenses
Exploring lenses and effects with the barbed wire, slinky and heart sticker work. “Any society will profit from the creative tensions of being interrogated from every possible angle by people living in it who can also see it through a different set of lenses.” Our Tangled Speech by Aodán Mac Póilin
Who protects who? Who shapes who?
T.T.T
I spy (can you see the hearts?)
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/police-federation-slams-pointless-rioting-that-saw-children-as-young-as-seven-attack-officers/a1399610944.html
Symbol
A target symbol
Slinky work
Found 1
Found 2
Found 3
Burned
Spotted
KAH
KAT
Marks left behind
Sometimes the marks we leave, that we do not think much of, turns out to mean a big deal.
Lense work in situ.
Reach up