Fay Ballard – Study for Another World

These studies, made for the tondi series ‘Another World’, are experiments using gesso, ink and pigment to convey us entering a portal to other worlds after this life. During a residency with the Pier Arts Centre last May, Fay climbed into Neolithic burial chambers in the Orkney Islands. She spent October in Japan visiting ancient Jomon sites and Mount Osore, a holy place and entry to the afterlife. Thoughts turned to the thin boundary between this life and the next, to her deceased loved ones and to the imagination’s ability to create grieving rituals and afterlives.