Guardians of The Sun Door
The film is a series of cosmic visions shot entirely at home and in the garden on expired 16mm film, weaving back and forth in time, to intimately chart the artist's personal journey, from calling new life into the world to becoming a mother.
Everything is alive with meaning - familiar personal objects such as stones, crystals and cut-up dresses are wrapped, re-worked and symbolically charged; personal rituals give rise to hand-sewn and painted forms, figures appear and act as guardians of the threshold she hopes to cross into motherhood; found objects and plants in her garden become signs, connecting microcosm to macrocosm; blood, milk, and fire signal elemental processes at work; and placenta is washed and laid on fabric. All the while a cat watches on, intuitive and knowing.
The making of the film itself formed part of a healing, transformative process, and a prayer for her unborn baby after a long journey to finally become a mother.
Bio
Rosalind Fowler, she/her, is an artist seeking to cultivate and explore meaningful entanglements between environmental care and human healing. She creates personal and collective rituals, often in socially engaged contexts, to create space for re-rooting, imaginative encounter, and new forms of kinship.
Everything is alive with meaning - familiar personal objects such as stones, crystals and cut-up dresses are wrapped, re-worked and symbolically charged; personal rituals give rise to hand-sewn and painted forms, figures appear and act as guardians of the threshold she hopes to cross into motherhood; found objects and plants in her garden become signs, connecting microcosm to macrocosm; blood, milk, and fire signal elemental processes at work; and placenta is washed and laid on fabric. All the while a cat watches on, intuitive and knowing.
The making of the film itself formed part of a healing, transformative process, and a prayer for her unborn baby after a long journey to finally become a mother.
Bio
Rosalind Fowler, she/her, is an artist seeking to cultivate and explore meaningful entanglements between environmental care and human healing. She creates personal and collective rituals, often in socially engaged contexts, to create space for re-rooting, imaginative encounter, and new forms of kinship.
Selected work: Weaving the Vessel (2024), a project on themes and practices of weaving, foraging and herbs with asylum seekers in S.London; All is leaf, so to amplify the wonder, screened for Serpentine’s ‘Shape of a Circle in the Dream of a Fish’ (2022); Camden Arts Centre plant connection guide commission for ‘The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree’ (2021). Selected solo installations – Barbican, PEER, William Morris gallery.
@rosalind.fowler
www.rosalindfowler.co.uk
@rosalind.fowler
www.rosalindfowler.co.uk