Artist Statement
- Wendy Pye’s ongoing personal project responds to the well-known natural beauty spot and location for suicide attempts in south east England, Beachy Head. Pye has created a sensitive body of work that has evolved over five years, from documenting the shrines left in memory of people, who have jumped from this sheer cliff, through to her recently completed short experimental film, 'Six Feet from the Edge' (2011) that surveys the interaction between people and the cliff edge of Beachy Head.
Process Statement
Throughout the project reference is made to thresholds, often in terms of metaphysical or psychological states, as for example, the transformation between living and dying. At the same time, physical thresholds between land and sea, such as the cliff edge, represent a literal and metaphorical dropping off point.
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