7 ARTISTS - 7 ARTWORKS - 7 STORIES - MELANIE BERESFORD
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House Built on Sand by Melanie Beresford
In my video piece ‘House Built on Sand’ composed of two individual films, the simplified structure of a house is used as a symbol of security to illustrate the futility of locating one’s security in something that can perish so easily.
Two small houses handmade in paper are captured on film, floating gently on the surface of the ocean, which at times bear the reflection of nearby homes. Engulfed by the weight of the water, the houses collapse and begin to sink, finally lying to rest on a bed of sand.
The title makes references to the biblical passage regarding the building of a house on sand and a house on rock. The juxtaposition of shaky sand and solid rock highlights the foolishness of building on a foundation where “the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
While we can plan for the future, the work is a reminder of humanity’s inability to control it.
Melanie Beresford 2015
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