who's gonna clean the mess in/of your garden? (2021-2022)

(dis)placing, re-imagining, and harvesting.
Inspired by In Search of Our Mother's Garden by Alice Walker (1972), and the beings (in melissandre’s lineage) who clean(ed) other people's house/work space. This is an invitation to honour invisible work(ers) and the (im)possibility to heal wounds created by systemic subordination.

Photo : black synthetic hair on floor with audiences walking on them or carrying them during performances in Liverpool, London, and Birmingham
Credit: Ayesha Jones, Aleksadra Moras, and Jazamin Sinclair

who's gonna clean the mess of/in your garden? (2022)
Love, Celebration & the Road Ahead, Hettie Judah's How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) book launch, TJ Boulting gallery, London, UK
photo credit: Aleksandra Moras

Who's gonna clean the mess of/in your garden? , 2022,Performance N’ Tha, SPILL YER TEA #6, Liverpool, UK
performed with Sym Stellium
photo credit: Jazamin Sinclair

who's gonna clean the mess of/in your garden?, 2022,
performance workshop, during Alberta Whittle's We gather and dream of new congregations, Grand Union, Birmingham,UK
facilitated by Sym Stellium
on-site therapist: Karen Dhlamini
photo credit: Ayesha Jones

expandable dimension, 2021, installation to be played with, black synthetic braids by melissandre + performance workshops’ participants, and melissandre's hair,
photo credit: Ayesha Jones