SUSAN FRANCIS

'Garden of Eternal Consequence' was created over the Covid pandemic when much time was spent alone in the studio with found objects, books and photographs collected over the years. It centre's around a fantastical reimagining of a futuristic ornament from my 1970's childhood, a tree of balls that sat on the television. This theme merged with imagery from a 1960's flower arranging book, and a book entitled 'Ideal Families' which I had picked up at a boot fair some years ago in mid-west America. Together the installation, film and dioramas speak of incomplete dreams and fragmented memory, a surreal world which hints at times to the Garden of Eden, scavenging from the past to imagine a future, both dystopian and quixotic in equal parts.