Garden of Synchronicities,

12min, digital, colour, sound.

Synchronicity as defined by carl Jung, is the meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

during September 2021 the artist conducted research through a residency, carried out within the confines of a walled victorian garden cemetery. Using a multi stranded approach as artistic practice, to explore the concepts of dream, death and notions of synchronicity.

The project utilised a pop up studio, installed within the cemetery chapel at Brompton. A space from which to conduct, investigate, collate and collaborate. Creating opportunity for creative conversation.

visitors to the chapel studio where invited to discuss their own experiences of chance, coincidence or synchronicity. 

onions, mothers, valentines, snails and other curious connections unfolded as stories were offered up. Past and present moments of coincidental happenings revealing questions around the potency of grief as a sensory portal to the experience of connection, beyond our everyday understanding.

can we become aware of an invisible other-worldly conversation at large, presenting itself to us. or, is it purely chance and coincidence that are speaking?