Diana COLLINS Royaume Uni

A symposium can be defined as a meeting, a forum that contains by its very nature, difference. To arrive here in Chevigny, was to arrive somewhere unknown to me before now. To speak a language I had learnt growing up in Canada and to stumble and find my way in late night conversations, was to make me aware of the differences I contain within myself.
 
On arrival I had to find a way to belong ; « to notice what you notice » as Alan Ginsberg has said, is a way to observe, to make connections.
 
And I found for myself the story of predator and prey - the one who hides and the other who seeks and I saw this story played out in the countryside here - the fox and the wily hare that showed itself to me and I saw how this story is played out in myself and in those around me, in those I meet still.
My installation using drawing, paprer and light tried to speak of these things to make reference to something that now feels very, very familiar. D.C.