home sick - endings or perhaps just more?

The residency at MoDA ended in October with Home sick an evening of work by the Kitchen Antics artists. Readings and Interventions, was stimulated by writings on the blog whilst at the museum.

a few extracts from readings and interventions at home sick

a knickknack - a curio - an ornament - an heirloom,
- a collectors piece - bric-a-brac

A woman stands on a stool delving into cupboards for the hidden, small and overlooked.
She has only begun to clear her mothers house after her death from cancer some two monthes ago. she had been trying to put off the inevitable and now has decided today is the day.
Searching into the back of her mothers wardrobe the woman discovers a small porcelain mug engraved with her name - a small bear appears on the other side.
The woman is transported back to red formica tables and pebbledash.
Where were you, what happened at that moment, how old were you, who else was there?

(walking round the table I sit on an empty chair and begin)

If I had to leave home suddenly without a momnet to pack belongings - not knowing if I would return - what object would I take with me?
When a place of refuge is removed, an object can provide some form of refuge, its mobility enables its adaptable, placed in a bag tucked inside clothing, resting, whilst its carried on a journey.
On its arrival in a different time, place and space, its identity may shift, however it remains invested with deeply personal histories.

(walking round the table I sit on an empty chair and begin)

A 52-year-old research biologist, is referred to a psychiatric department where he is found to be suffering from compulsive collecting behaviour, which has spanned 23 years of his life.
The man reported that he collected items that were inexpensive or free, from antique shops, beaches, rubbish bins for example, although the items were useful in the general sense of the word, he would be unlikely to use them. He reported loss of concentration due to worrying about his collecting, and anxiety when trying to resist his desire to collect and hoard.
The psychiatrist described the disorder as signified by a "massive and disruptive" need to accumulate useless objects, a reluctance to get rid of the collections.

Treatment was initiated with paroxetine at 10 mg daily and increased to 20 mg daily after 1 month. Four weeks later, the compulsive collecting behaviour had stopped, and after 2 months, the patient had begun to dispose of his collected items.

(walking round the table I sit on an empty chair and begin)

embodying a bowl

My edges wrap you

engulfing

your liquids clinging to my sides

my mouth opens to you

I drain

channel

ooze

and weep

(walking round the table I sit on an empty chair and begin again)