20 x 8 cm acrylic and paper on glass 2022

Cinemama FT. Vivien Leigh Waterloo Bridge 1941

trauma as the rupture of the container? The ability to contain experience, that is the ability to link associated experiences, may be lost in the face of trauma, understood as unbearable experience. “Knowledge as disaster,” as Maurice Blanchot puts it: In the face of knowledge as disaster, the ability to link or associate experiences is lost. (YOU DON”T JOIN UP SHE SAID)

The inability to put words to the traumatic experience, or the enormous difficulty involved, is also a consequence of the inability to associate experiences, and so put feelings to words about feelings: language is what we are.

W. R. Bion, “Attacks on linking,” in Second Thoughts, pp. 93-109. New York: Jason Aronson, 1967.

The representation of trauma has been one of cinemas central motifs

In so doing what extent does cinema reproduce the very forms of structural power which may be traumas generative cause. To what extent to problematise to present to complicate and so question

The kernel of traumatic experience as powerlessness in the face of structural force

to define force it is that which turns anybody subjected into a thing It makes a corpse out of them: Thingification.

Simone Weil

It Might Even Be A Kind of A Relief to be finished Marilyn Monroe 2023

The safety of the frame

To discover the restrictions and the elements of a life and its representations

How this is internalised with my personal and intellectual experience and is inseparable from the social aesthetic and philosophical currents of the time late 20^th century

3 years old after Monroe’s death my mother compulsively makes drawings of her and took me to see The Wizard Of Oz.

Mervyn Le Roy directed both The WIzard of Oz and Waterloo Bridge

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