Going Nowhere is a homage to the plight of Rhinoceroses and Elephants who are being brutalised and marched into extinction for their tusks and horns. In this video Emma plays the Rhino and the human simultaneously, metaphorically linking the human to our fellow animal. The video emphasises that symbiotically, as we share the same planet, what harms the Rhinoceros also harms the human. Human empathy towards the plight of our fellow animal is the theme.
The head piece in this video was cast from Emma’s award winning marble sculpture ”Wry?No!’ that discusses the fallacy that Rhinoceros horn can cure common ailments in traditional medicines, and attacks the machismo attitude of the hunters.
Filmed in the hills around the highest town in Somerset, November 2020.