Two performers. Each holds an imaginary fly in cupped hands. Be careful – it might escape. So keep your hands tight but don’t squash it. Keep checking, and sometimes moving your hands, to be sure there are no small gaps between your fingers. Walk through the streets together, concentrating on carrying your fly. Don’t rush. Take your time. Don’t start conversations, but if anyone asks what you are carrying, say ‘nothing’. At a wide space, a cross roads, or a place you decide is suitable, stop.
Slowly (really slowly) and together, lift your cupped hands above your heads. Look up at your hands. Open them. Just open your hands. Do not watch the flies flying away. There is nothing there.
Unnoticed art festival, Dordrecht.
Clare Charnley artist 