My Ray of Sunshine

A mother and daughter, separated by the ocean, use soundwaves to communicate. My Ray of Sunshine explores the memory of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people through the concepts of the spiral time and critical fabulation. It imagines the voice messages that an enslaved mother might have sent to her daughter. Technology and art give us access to a previously inaccessible dimension of time: history is unfolding before us. An African woman is captured and shipped across the Atlantic, leaving her daughter behind. The voice messages tell her story, contrasting with the violent sounds of the sea. The video installation explores this duality by showing the mother on board the ship and the daughter on land. As the images converge, their link across time and space becomes closer. Affection is an act of resistance to the violence of colonisation.