It may be justified to keep a single bird when a close relationship with a lonely, chronically ill or immobile person is to be established. Single birds have no other living contact, so they will need a great deal of human attention…*

I was waiting to write the text for the exhibition. Something happens in the transition between waiting and grieving that feels perpetual, loopy even. The lone budgie awaits a response from the mirror it is feeding. We nervously pick at chairs as we wait within the assigned spaces of care institutions. You’re adjusting, coming to terms with the muting of something familiar, once present. The work in this exhibition sets about re-addressing the surfaces familiar to such settings as if visiting sites of the absent body.

*from Your First Budgerigar by Dr J. E. Lohr published in 1991 by T.F.H. Publications