Hayley’s Visual Poems

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“If you remember,
you will hear echoes.”
for Yuhan







































Hayley’s Visual Poems

︎ About Hayley
︎ Instagram
If you remember,
You will hear echoes.

For Yuhan 

I Wanna Tell You

Installation, Vedio, UK, 2023
Wool, Needles, Sound Devices 
Voice Actors, Actress,
Video Recorder 

This project has two possible interpretations: either as a record and response to research on Pink Seeds, a funded project by the Varley Awards, or as a group of individual installations.

The wool felt is used as a metaphor for the softness and vulnerability of the human body, particularly in relation to a disease such as cancer. The act of poking the wool felt with a needle symbolizes the physical and emotional pain that cancer causes, as well as the ways in which the disease can reshape a person's body and mind.

I put a light sensitive speaker into the wool felt sculptures, and the wool felt adds an element of intimacy and personal connection to the listening experience as we hear the stories of the breast cancer survivors.  I think that this approach has the potential to create a powerful and emotional impact on the audience, and in the future I will develop recording devices that allow the listener to respond.

The wool felt sculptures are designed based on the physical characteristics of the survivors, they develop through conversation and are formed with their consent.

Outcome Pieces