The video shows a failed resuscitation attempt to expand the intermediate status, in between the horror of damaged beauty, and the image of life. It places a camera in the seam between past and future, in spite of the present, in order to deny the possibility of the eternal.
Alchemy is a mystical science which tried for years to produce gold. As a type of unfulfilled miracle, this action didn’t always produce results. but, these failures remain as an esthetic testimony to experimentation. This experimentation without result, esthetic failure, leaves behind documentation of methods used, and has a worth greater than gold.
‘Grandmaother’ displays injustice – the attempt to return a life which was, a conversation which was had, a grandmother whom you loved.