At the beginning of 2014 I created a series of 13 drawings, ‘The story so far, by Anne-Marie Watson. This is my revolution’. Taking the form of a written text told in the first person they detail memories and reflections from my life. The writing is a free and associative process which allows for daydreaming and tangential ideas, somewhere between fact and fiction.

‘During 2013, in my 34th year, I made a series of decisions which would change the course of my life. As a beginning to this new stage I wanted to find a way to tell my story so far and decided to be the narrator rather than the unwitting protagonist in it.’

‘The story so far…’ emerged through my daily ritual, sitting and writing while turning the pages round and round, pouring her memories onto each sheet. Akin to one off daily performances the resulting works contain an imprint of this charged, intimate and repetitive act and are a record of this time as well as the past they contain.

Due to the fallibility of memory the work only describes one possible version of my life, what I remembered at the time of writing. It was written organically with the only prescription that I try and attach no criticism or judgment to her memories.

The 13 drawings represent the number of moon cycles which can occur over a year. I chose colours to reflect the names traditionally given to each moon cycle: Blue Moon, Pink Moon, Harvest Moon.

‘I am interested in the repetitive, cyclical and ongoing nature of our experience the revolutions that occur throughout all our lives.’

Individual works:

Installation shots: