PILGRIM
Sat. 22nd Feb
15.00 - 18.00
31 Castle Lane
Bedford
Dusk sitting on a doorstep.
Do Me Rattle.

Pilgrim was a long durational performance within a recently refurbished house in the grounds of Bedford Museum.
Since its first series in 1997, Changing Rooms has led the way for countless people when it comes to decorating their homes. This popular BBC TV series shows that you don't need a great deal of cash or expertise to achieve 'stunning' results in a short space of time.
Unlike Changing Rooms, Stitt employed diverse materials including, but not exclusively, archival photographs of Bedford Life between the 1960s and 1970s, crematorium ash cans, taxidermy albino animals, text, a large quantity of talcum powder and similar quantities of salt. The artist carried out a pilgrimage, back and forth, between two rooms within the house.
As dusk falls outside audiences were encouraged to contemplate various notions of passing through time. Many joined the artist for what turned out to be a physically demanding and entirely unconventional 'makeover. Concerned with notions of redemption, Pilgrim explored notions of time and physical migration.

The house is like my life
I'm ashamed of the house
I'm ashamed of my life
When the pain and
the ghosts disappear
it takes you down
smothered in a thousand
comfort blankets
How easy it is to steal everything
take everything from the people you love
Morning cold monotony
tungsten blue, andgrey, and shivery
Dusk sitting on a doorstep
do me rattle