Millie Rose Dobree
United Kingdom, 1998
millierosedobree@hotmail.com
Thesis: I walked by the sun
I walked by the sun
An installation reminiscent of a street square, the work brings together samples of anonymous traces into a nexus of reflection. Parallel to the real street on the other side of the glass window, it is the transience and liminality of the physical mark that eerily takes on a story of its own, is adopted into the memory of someone else, and loops on. Honing in on these specific but semi-universal symbols - a smiley face carved into a tree, converse hanging from a telephone wire, a sun inscribed into wet concrete, memorial engravings on wooden benches, the beat through headphones - will recall a certain kind of youth, perhaps something everyone yearns for. The replication of these traces carves out a space that displaces a viewer, such as how the city can displace and anonymize all of us. It could be suggested that the act of leaving behind is what gives us agency. Void of agents, the viewer is perchance a ghost in the space.
