Land Swallow is a wild take on loneliness - an intrinsic facet of life somewhere down that (hopefully) long road.  

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Land Swallow acts as a response to my unrequited attempts at love and attraction.

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With a level of dysphoria and unsatisfied yearning, I poetically and artistically gives my sexuality back to the earth, my only constant.

 

Through costume and physical performance,  I endeavoured to mirror society's shared dating and courtship semiotics, by shapeshifting into different protagonists to entice a reaction from my surroundings. Each character gives way to a different version of the projected self, exposing the timid, crass, lustful, manic and painful faces of myself - within the quest for reciprocated desire.

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A four year project, photographed, performed and written by Ryan Skelton, filmed and directed by Saskia Dixie.

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With costumes by
Kate Zelentsova, John Skelton, Rene Scheibenbauer, Liam Johnson, Maisie Pearson, Edwin Thomas Mohney,
Harry Pontefract, Celia Calderon Asensio, Stephanie Linn, Alisa Ruzavina and Joel Quadrl

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Presented and co-edited by Jamie Allan Shaw & EYM Studio

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Exhibited on June 28th 2018  at Asylum Chapel, London.