ReView

Film that was the legacy of the ReView Exhibition & Gathering Project. Directed and edited by Jenny Keogh, Stand Out Films.

Narration and curation by me. Thinking about the power of objects that we put so much time, and skill and feeling into… and how so much of what we surround ourselves with will outlast us on the earth.

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2022

They’ve been hiding their light in boxes.

Tucked away from dust but also tucked from any chance of ever being

touched

admired

free.

These objects, receptacles of so much care and attention.

The hundreds of hours shaping, forming.

Acquiring the know-how

to create from just raw materials and imagination that picture which had taken root inside your

head. The thing you had to realise, to understand in more then 3 dimensions.

They’ve been formed with fire and with science.

Ground by history.

Cut with intention.

Polished by strength of feeling.

They are not passive objects they scream a story if we only try to hear them, if we only give

them space to breath.

An artist should be prepared to kill their darlings. They say that it is not good

to become too precious.

Move on, move up, and make way for the next shiny, glittering thing.

So we create more and more

keeping our heads above water

perched on unstable piles of that which accumulates.

Glass could be around for a million years, far outliving us,

Lingering longer than the trees

Staying, remaining still, though streams divert and climates change.

A disgraded bottle could become a lasting legacy,

although we may see through it we should not look past it -

repair, reuse, ReView.

They will not so quietly, be set aside to gather dust in boxes,

Under light and sky and lens they are again

for a short time, free.