SYLVIE VANDENHOUCKE | BY DAY MY LIMBS, BYNIGHT MY MIND

BY DAYS MY LIMBS, BY NIGHT MY MIND | 2010

by day my limbs, by night my mind * is a collaborative project between Sally Morfill and Sylvie Vandenhoucke. A mutual interest in drawing and the myriorama or ‘Endless Landscape’ with its many narrative variations provided the starting point for remote discussion, suggesting the development of a kit of components to bring together on site. There is a mutual risk taking; an attempt at dialogue; play; an as yet unknown resolution. Five Years provides the first moment of exposure and one proposed configuration of elements chosen from the kit. Sally Morfill and Sylvie Vandenhoucke met through a research project initiated by Manchester Metropolitan University, UK investigating the impact of the collaborative process on artists’ individual practices.

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_{Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed}

_{The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;}

_{But then begins a journey in my head}

_{To work my mind, when body’s
work’s expir’d:}

_{For then my thoughts - from far where I abide –}

_{Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,}

_{And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,}

_{Looking on darkness which the blind
do see:}

_{Save
that my soul’s imaginary sight}

_{Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,}

_{Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,}

_{Makes black night beauteous and her
old face new.}

_{Lo!
thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,}

_{For thee, and for myself no quiet find.}

_{William Shakespeare Sonnet XXVII}