Hope/Compassion.
Experience/Assimilation.
Evidence/Ephemera.

I approached my residency with a sense of melancholy hope, my work and practice telling of an anticipatory nihilistic vision in the shadow of a cold God and a bleak world.
Stratford Grove facilitated a sort of Alchemy. The fecundity of the space transformed conceptual notions of an optimistic destruction into vivid, empirical experiences of genuine hope, love and compassion.
Balanced domesticity, philosophies about the nature of what we create and the semiotics of happening entreat to a truthful sense of hope, connection and faith.
Queer Hope.
David Reynolds.