*Flashing Content.
Please note there are low bass tones within the audio that requires good quality headphones or speakers as
some the sound will not be picked on otherwise.*

This video consists of a three minute plus video portraying a rise and decline of intensity.
The shots consist of focusing on the female mouth with symbolism of lips and labia. The lips as a vessel
consuming, egesting and communication, in this case, through body language.
This video is a second execution of the triptych from ‘Brush your teeth, Wash your face and Comb your
hair’. Repetitive shots of brushing teeth will be the focused action drawn from a comfort ritual.
Conceptually, commencing from traumatic sexual experience which result in construction of repression.
Excessiveness on a mundane activity in order to ‘get clean’ from an unspoken experience plays a
significant aspect. By exploiting a grotesque natural bodily fluid, it symbolizes the inability to speak
about taboo subject matters but retrospectively regaining power over vulnerability.
Other shots will be executed by mild distortion of the face through digital manipulation. Edited glitches
and shot rotations represent the mind spinning and resulting in identity dis-clarity. Cerebral elements are
clued into the title of the proposed piece- Catatonia is abnormality of movement and behaviour ascended
from a disturbed state of mind.
The audio represents bodily sounds of an abstract heartbeat with the intention to resonate within. Inspiration
of the direction on the audio lead from a night of broken sleep hearing the sound of a disturbed pulse. The
rhythmic arrangement of the sound has an intentional linear movement (from to one point to another) and
rotational motion. The intent to create an illusion of the start and end of the video. Missed beats in the audio
are representations of anxious/flustered heart beats.

Materials – mouth, toothbrush, toothpaste, camera, tripod, menstrual blood
Special thanks to
Robbie Murphy Sound design
Simon O Donnell Cameraman
Steve Savage Editing assistant

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