Cindy's Wretched Family Dinner, Installation with decoupaged and painted table and chairs, 2022
Granny's House, 2022, tapestry/tablecloth, 40x40inches, vintage doilies, handkerchiefs and sublimated photos.
Cindy’s Wretched Home
In this house of neglect
With holes in the doors
Dust on the floors
Blood on the walls
And spiders in the halls,
I’m trapped in four.
Curled on sofas of ripped cloths and
Gnat eaten foam
I wade through a sea of shit:
which drags me down in both ways,
One causes bruising
The other swallows me whole
My legs endlessly itch
Clustered with specks of pink, torn into jammy lesions
Tossing and turning on a sunken mattress
Until I’m mummified in soiled linens
Never told to brush, my teeth crumble away
I spin in this room to flee the echoes of howls
And claw at my castle on a cloud
I hare towards it
On an ever-sprawling stretch
Not a bus around to get me there
Sick stained toilet
Reeks of urine
Hairs blooming from plugholes,
Mangled yellow pits,
Cheap.
Not a bite in the cupboard
Not a soul for miles
No love
Blank calls
Broken bulbs
Greasy galls
I dress like royalty to pretend I am