A Line Made by Walking

When her grandmother dies, 25-year-old Frankie, who has been living in Dublin, has a breakdown and moves back in with her parents. Struggling with depression, she then retreats to her late grandmother's vacant house in the country in search of healing. Having "failed" to make a living as an artist in Dublin, Frankie turns to photographing dead animals for her next art project. (Her rule: they can't have died at her hands). Slowly, with the help of her mother's sustaining unconditional love, Frankie comes to accept herself and is able to move on. Baume's (Spill Simmer Falter Wither) symbolism represented through nature—death and rebirth, flight and falling—holds a mirror to Frankies's own experiences and acute observations of life. The narrative is divided into her remembrances of various known artworks, which gives voice to Frankie's thoughts and state of mind, but at times seems disruptive.