MEWNrhwng is a hybrid of ‘mewn’ meaning in and ‘rhwng’ meaning between. Colliding them together to express the stages of contentment and emotional thralls. Us and them, here and now, present and future. The blurred lines between wellness and chaos.
I started this project knowing exactly what I wanted to visualise and the message I wanted to convey. Analysing the moments your brain is at rest and the stages of contentment. The pandemic took me to other narratives, how could one not be influences and changed during this time. Dealing with issues of anxiety, adolescence, mindfulness and environmental and political impacts.
Dismantling ideas into forms, materials, photographs and research videos. Connecting with the evening light and shadows dancing against the walls of my home, my shelter, my prison. Capturing the timeline of the day, weeks and months of the uncertainty we had all find ourselves in. In limbo, in the unknown, in the MEWNrhwng.
SUGNO - DISGYN - TROELLI - BODDI - SYRTHIO - ANADLU
The work is subtle, with interventions of shapes and forms to convey a narrative or emotion. Using domestic and mundane materials, photographs in square formats to match their social media presence. The changing of the light, vibrance of the colours, glowing only when the time of day light is at the right angle. External and internal images of everyday objects places side by side for observation. TOUCH, the longing of connection from within the walls you are confined in.
PYLU MEWN - FADE IN - PYLU ALLAN - FADE OUT - PYLU MEWN - FADE IN - PYLU ALLAN - FADE OUT
[Top images: artist own research artwork, Bottom images: photographs by Anna Higson]
