Part of the body of work, "Within this Narrow Strip of Land". In Bleed an entirely black screen is demarcated by a thin line of light that runs across it horizontally. It is only when movement is glimpsed within the line that the viewer becomes aware that this is a far distant road and these are vehicles travelling along it. Bleed returns the viewer to the ever‐present question of territory and more specifically the anxiety of displacement engendered by the pervasive darkness surrounding the illuminated road, which offers no clue to its whereabouts or the nature of the terrain. In its stark delineation of space, the road in Bleed takes on a resonant symbolism. It resembles a fissure or scar, etched deeply into the undetermined landscape, memento mori of the mental and physical scars that a century of warfare has imposed on the people of this disputed land.
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