This installation is a reimagining of Joseph Beuys’ theatrical installation Lightning with Stag in its Glare (1958 - 85), which has continued to profoundly influence Wooller since she first viewed it at The Tate in her teens.

Conceived by Beuys in the year of Wooller’s birth, the original piece articulates Beuys’ abiding fascination with forces of nature, symbolism and spirituality. Wooller was profoundly influenced by Beuys use of materials and the visual language he made in order to construct his own mythology; years later, she wanted to use it as an art historical template to depict her own complicated knots of hope, compartmentalism, confusion, shame, rejection & love that have invisibly shaped her since.

This piece is simultaneously a celebration of the universal forces of life, light, vitality, renewal, and their complementary counterpart: mortality, while exploring the weight of personal self-flagellation provoked by the artist’s own anxiety.