You enter a room. Its warm light seemed so enticing from the vastness of space. A winged chair stands there before you, inviting you to sit. You hear distant sounds, is it just the music in your mind? The chair’s soft wings envelop you, instantly knowing your secret wish, then carry you up and away from the empty crib.
You fly high through blue skies over green fields and meadows of daisies, floating and swooping with the wind and the birds. You close your eyes, warm sun on your eyelids, and feel the half hidden memories of the songs and stories of long ago…
Time and space collide and you’re falling, too fast, too far… Screams surround you as skin rips from the wings, you burst through the curtains and into madness. The horror of the true world grasps you by the leg and drags you back to reality, to the stark prison, as the relentless, perpetual nightmare continues anew.
Jayne Clegg
This installation explores themes around animal suffering and loss.
The installation has been a ride! It’s taken me through multiple media and ideas, from a full children’s bedroom with a bookcase full of illustrated story books and a bed full of soft toys, to where we are today.
This rollercoaster has been a joy, a thrill and a nightmarish plummet to the depths of despair, which I feel suits the theme and the whole message of this work.
Feel free to sit in the chair and let your thoughts soar into the blue, take with you a single daisy to remember a lost child, hold on tight!
