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Without vision, Blanket dragged its damp, muddied body across gravel and greenery outside, sometimes pausing for rest. It then quietly crawled into, around and out of the gallery space, morphing shape and twisting organs while leaving trails of its path - a drawing with rich brown smears, clumps of clay and speckles of dry dust. The being is perhaps injured seeking shelter, with a blanket, a protective barrier, forming a frameless anatomy. Seemingly indifferent to the cause of the marks, a cleaner proceeds to mop the floor, returning the invaded space to its original clean state (roles of performer were switched from 'thing' to cleaner). Blanket opens concerns surrounding the relationship between material dirt and symbolic ideas of dirtiness, as well as thoughts about land, humans and animals, with mud collected from a nearby field and the site formerly being a farm.

Alone, Together is formed by two autonomous organisms, slowly stretching and contracting their bodies as they blindly navigate space with uncertain intention. With skin shaped from large volumes of Velcro, one coloured white, another black, the two opposites act individually, leaving chance to decide a moment of meeting. Ambiguous forms immobilise, have crunchy caterpillar contractions and robotic reactions; their soft breath is fragile while their bulk hostile. Together, they tentatively probe and grotesquely engulf one another provoking uncomfortable laughter; once connected, they are unable to separate. The piece addresses attachment in the human condition - threat, love and loss - a collective subjective response to the unknown.