"The four channels of the installation move through twenty-five video monitors and a rear screen video projector / quilt. The video monitors become part of a moving fabric and / or wall mosaic design: the video becoming fabric and the fabric becoming video. The quilt is a homage both to Frida Kahlo, for her painting, "My Grandparents, My Parents, and I" - also the subject of my video quilt - and to Joyce Wieland for her quilts working out a sense of mythology.
"The installation is lit as a night garden. The floor monitors are wrapped in saris and situated amongst sandstone rocks and plants, and the monitor throws light onto the plants.
"The installation, in a sense, becomes a place of the imagination: a night garden where my two grandmothers finally meet, one from India, the other from Alberta (with family connections moving back to Scotland). The work was shot in Scotland and India, thus conveying two very distinct senses of place: the nordic and the tropical.
"Everything is seen through layers, giving a sense of memory and history as fragments, incomplete, and as distant - seen through time, seen through other people, seen through stories." -L.S.