Black Sheep by Jess Mac

 

Black Sheep explores the corrupted morality of a society where profit is the only value, told through the eyes of a traumatized child that believes in magic. Here the longing for connection with the ‘Other Outsider’ is a bridge back to our humanity.  In this world the soil of the earth is always being colonized – and the sheep roam freely over the skulls.

The Unicorn is the creative possibility for transformation and living beyond the moral binaries – and yet is unreal. Living between sheep and a magical potential, our narrator is finding this horn too heavy to bare. With mirrored masks, cloudy faces and sheep hats, the humans attempt to camouflage with their surroundings – but the rainbow encrusted eyes and golden lashes reveal a campy truth, there is no place like feeling at home.

In the end she turns to dark magic for her pain, where she realizes the spells can’t be held in by our teeth. We cannot hold the darkness inside by clenching our jaws and carrying on as if nothing is happening. All three videos illustrate a seeking of release from the conditions that alienate us. Connection, creation and making peace with our shadow selves.