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Caitlin McMullan, ‘​First Step Swim’ (2021)

ONE WORK
A close up of a white hand moving through water. The water is dark, made up of deep blues and muddy browns. Light reflecting on the water creates a painterly quality. Weeds float in the water, and they are partly in motion as the hand brushes against them.

Jane Hartshorn on Caitlin McMullan's 'First Step Swim'

Writing

Poet and academic Jane Hartshorn responds to ‘First Step Swim'.
an aerial view still shows a white woman floating on her back in dark blue, almost black water. She wears a black swimming costume that covers her body and arms, the skin of her face, hands and legs stand out against the dark water. Her left foot extends upwards as she kicks, and her right leg, which is amputated below the knee, moves downwards. As she floats in the loch, ripples extend from her body outwards through the water. Light catches the ripples and through the water’s surface we can see brown plants.

ONE WORK | Caitlin McMullan, ‘​First Step Swim’

Event 19 December 2022