BONNIE LANE
Everything is Alright (2010), shows the figure of a woman-child facing away from the audience into complete darkness, a bottomless void of black. As she skips rope ever so slowly the only sound heard is the slap of the rope as it hits the ground. I intend for the audience to speculate: is she the predator or victim? Is she all-knowing or naive? Is she aware of her repetitive task or ignorant to her enslavement? A surreal confusion is created in the scale of the figure in proportion to the viewer, just slightly smaller than human scale I anticipate for the strange and undisclosed age to suggests she is heading into the darkness of adulthood and the conscious loss of childhood innocence. She appears to be stuck in a limbo with no escape, enticing the audience into a mesmerising state of beauty, wonder, fear and anticipated horror.
