The title of this piece refers to a particular period in my life. It is intended to be a recorded memory of the times my parents were dying in hospital.

These were the times when my sister and I waited in the Accident and Emergency Department, the times we kept vigil in the waiting room outside the Intensive Care Unit.

My most overwhelming memory is of the endless waiting ‘Waiting' in the no-man's land of the hospital. There was a sense of disorientation: between one place and another, between one time and another, between day and night, between the past and the future. People from one's past were encountered. Memories of another life floated by, half recognised. One felt disassociated from oneself, from life, and from reality.

“Out of time and space.”

Bronwen Casson: Biography

Bronwen Casson was for twenty-five years a stage and costume designer at the National Theatre of Ireland. In 2003 she graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology (BA: Photography and Digital Imaging.)

She has just completed the MA course “Virtual Realities” at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Her most recent media works are the Installation, “The Sun rising over the Sea” in the MA Graduate Show at the Digital Hub, Dublin: June 2007, the video piece, “Flux” and an Audio Installation: “No Man's Land”.

Her photographs and digital images of Yemen were exhibited at The 9th International Photography Gathering in Aleppo, Syria in September 2006.
Her mixed media collages “Moonscapes and Ebb Tide” were exhibited at Airfield House, Co Dublin in 2006 and her current metallic foil collages Sunrises are a development of this theme.