TAMARA BAILLIE
Adelaide/Kaurna-based artist Tamara Baillie has created a new stop-animation video that tenderly speaks through times of COVID-19 isolation. The work titled Saltwater Feelings (2020), celebrates the act of crying and the phenomena of tears as an exorcism of personal-private/global-shared experiences. As the artists says, tears are the “glittering conglomerations and encrustations formed by organic processes."
Emotions surge and flow without warning.
Vulnerability spills over into tears.
Everything melts away.
Never more alone yet never more connected.
Emotions surge and flow without warning.
Vulnerability spills over into tears.
Everything melts away.
Never more alone yet never more connected.
This is a very different work to what I planned to make in February, or even March. By April the world was an entirely different place and I was a very different version of myself. My day job as a frontline healthcare worker became increasingly intense and exhausting. I witnessed my own emotions become increasingly fluid and unpredictable and heard family, friends and internet strangers relating similar disintegrations. When we were all dissolving and scared, I dreamed that our tears would expose a kinder landscape to inhabit.
Tamara Baillie
Tamara Baillie
Saltwater Feelings 2020
stop-animation video