Your Cotton Voice follows a woman making art from loss: an homage to her mother.
It opens on her at home, cutting fabric, turning over what her site-responsive installation might become. The search carries her to a thrift store, hunting for objects that spark her curiosity, then to the river, where the work takes shape piece by piece.
When it is finished, she sits within it, letting the grief move through her, making room for the loved ones still waiting on the other side of it.
Director's Statement
I'm fascinated by how people wrestle with and communicate the interior self. By the mystery of spaces, material or immaterial, where even ugly or disturbing thoughts can be reinterpreted into something beautiful and challenging.
I found one of those spaces in a Nancy Tobin installation, a whole room of elaborate handmade vignettes from found objects. The longer we talked, the more I was drawn in: making art is the only way she can process difficult feelings and connect to the outside world. Your Cotton Voice grew out of those conversations. Instead of building the film around one of her big installations, we chose something small, intimate and improvised.
I made it alone, following an artist who works alone, and that symmetry shaped the film: the quiet, the closeness, the room for discovery.