How to find a non missing find
During my three-month residency at the Lunga School, I developed an interest in semaphores—using this nautical language as a proxy for body language, and as a method for intimacy to traverse real or imagined distances.
“They had been sitting close together on the berm but sending clumsy semaphores as if it were the Clyde Valley that divided them. James leaned across the distance and placed a kiss on his lips. It was dry and his teeth scraped Mungo’s bottom lip. They bumped heads.”
I began making semaphore flags from old curtains and learning the semaphore alphabet. In collaboration with Chloe Nakatsuru, I created a film in which I traced large chalk circles into the landscape—onto footpaths, rocks, and grass. We climbed a small mountain, and from its peak, I sent semaphore messages across the fjord.
This footage became the visual source material for a Riso-printed book titled How to Find a Non-Missing Find, inspired by David Horovitz’s How to Shoplift Books. The book and an audio guide were presented in our final exhibition, The Search Party, curated by Diogo Pinto.
https://www.are.na/a-bell/a-non-missing-find