Safe was performed live, (and streamed live) on 10th April 2017, 7pm at MK Gallery. The piece is partly about human ignorance, our inability to understand truly the situations (and dangers), we create around ourselves, before we react, before there becomes no turning back. But on another level it is the story of a creative struggle; a soul striving to build, in the most familiar way, her own ‘safe’ cage.
We are all creating prisons for ourselves in life. The uninhabitable soon becomes familiar. Isolationism can feel ‘Safe’ and one person’s comfort zone is another’s anxiety. We may be innocent in purpose but how often do we really understand one another’s space? How often do we understand the repercussions of our actions as we place one block upon another? By capturing myself in an inescapable cage, I’m preserving a version of myself in time -the action allows a new version of myself to emerge.
Jessica Rost
You can see a time-lapsed recording of the performance piece here.
