The Whited Sepulchre takes the form of personal diary reconstructed. Images from various parts of the world are amalgamated based on an imagined inner dual narrative so that my personal experiences and motivations are re-imagined through the creation of a cinematic version of the present that could be from any time – that is governed by an overall sensation more than a geographical or temporal framework, that attempts to visually respond to the shape of trauma. Constantly on the verge of revelation but being drawn back to try to understand experiences that were beyond our comprehension. People born into families of intergenerational trauma are themselves often forced to live in a submerged world that runs parallel to other people’s reality. Their real selves become something to be hidden at all costs. Even when presented with evidence to the contrary they cannot accept themselves as having any value. Ireland has been cast under the spell of a fiction invented to mask hundreds of years of deep cultural wounds. The Whited Sepulchre takes a close look at this Irish fiction of self.
