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Shadow Girl
Jayne Morley traces the footsteps of her
childhood dreams focusing on the places she lived and visited family.
Stockport, Manchester, North wales and Margate, a nostalgic loop of forgotten
memories emerging with the aid of a found mannequin. Entering previous homes,
schools and dreamt of places, Jayne attempts to restore her life which
spiritually ceased in 1977 with the suicide of her father. She endeavours to
bring sense to the magnitude of this event on her life in her desire to lay the
shadows, that have shaped her life, to rest. Like a magnet she travelled these
parts of England and Wales “putting herself back together again.” Entering
these old homes reassured Jayne that she had not left her shadows there, that
she carried herself with her and that the red bricked buildings of Stockport
were just that. Serendipidous apparitions and the real life appearances of her
daughter Florence and her partner provided links to her present creating a safe
perameter to focus on this dream-like state.
The mannequin Jayne reveals a world where
everything was bigger and Jayne, the photographer, discovers, through the placing
of ‘herself’, that Jayne, the girl, was always looking on. Shadow Girl is a memoir of a woman who for
many years found it difficult to be on this earth, casting shadows around her
and remaining in these shadows for a great part of her life.
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