2017
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Té à la menthe adhe cup/Half a cup of mint tea. 

Thé à la menthe adhe cup/Half a cup of mint tea. Watercolour, oil pigments, lead pencil, paper, found material.                                                            Showing Thé à la menthe at Attokoussy project                                                                                                                             

Thé à la menthe adhe cup/Half a cup of mint tea began in Vienna and Marrakesh, and during Attokoussy, a conference and residency organised by Elisabeth Piskernik and her gallery, LeCube in Rabat.
Attokoussy explored the relationship between art, art practice, and ritual. Lacking French or Arabic, and knowing very little about the culture of Morocco, I wandered around, like an insect putting out feelers. On the streets, life unfolding and over time I began to sense ritual and ceremony playing out in the ordinary and everyday. Aspects of french and arabic culture had mingled and taken interesting shapes, in the food, the architecture. Islam here manifested differently. I met women wearing what all styles of clothes, running all kinds of businesses. I met a tortoise making its way somewhat furtively along the crevice between street and wall. I met a woman at a tea stall who chatted effusively in French as I drew her portrait. I met a woman running a beauty salon, another a hotel. I found a graveyard looking out to the sea and was sternly told to not sit on its tombs. I met a man who wanted to be an artist. A small chatty girl in a bazaar was raising funds for her own wheelchair. A church was feasting homeless people with trays of couscous. Three chameleons in a cage begged in all colours of the rainbow for release back to their beloved desert but alas, I did not have enough money to buy them.