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Solace 

Title: Solace 
Artist: Damien Orriss
Medium: Video Art, Projection Mapped Installation, Duel Screens (White line indicating screen split).
Duration: 13 Minutes 

The work focuses on the spiritual and emotional connections of individuals in isolation and how through human movement and gesture this isolation can reach the innermost emotional core of the self.

I startled awake with my face wet and my chest aching, she reached out to lay her hand on top of mine.

The gesture was so tentative, her expression so anxious, you would think she had never touched a man before.

As if she was worried I might break or burn or bite.

Her cool hand lay on mine for a moment, gentle as a moth.

She squeezed my hand softly, waited, then pulled away.
It struck me as odd at the time. But I was too clouded with confusion and grief to think clearly. Only now, looking back, do I realize the truth of things.

With all the awkwardness of a young lover, she was trying to comfort me, and she didn't have the slightest idea how.” 

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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