Eden Kötting

An experimental reflection on the changeable and complex nature of memory through the lens of neurodivergence.

Neuro-diverse artist Eden Kötting’s remarkable drawings, paintings and collages create an illusory, animated world where the rules change and everything is possible.

John Rogers takes a trip to St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex to go for a walk around this seaside town with the great filmmaker Andrew Kötting.

From London to the far reaches of Scotland, the journey in the form of a quest for a whalebone box, related to its place of origin.

Back stroke butterfly, front crawl and bras, we are awash in an ocean of bubbles. Meanwhile Captain Ahab sets sail on his magic carpet in search of the whale. All is not well in the world but Eden is there, fresh from her garden, tuning into “The Far Away Land”. We are deep in the cloud of our own making but help is at hand, and everything might yet be alright.

A video postcard: "Ubi amor ibi oculus" ("Where love is, there is insight").

Super 8 project for Coastal Currents 2017 by Hastings Film Makers and musicians. Produced by Mark French. Filmed in charity shops in Hastings & St Leonards, East Sussex UK. 1 roll of super 8 film 'everything' shot in camera. Eden wears her Jack-in-the Green costume and takes us into her inscape and hinterland.

The work might be seen as a mash-up of the films “It's All In The Mind”, “All At Sea”, “Combat - Black Apples” and “Bouyed By The Irrelevance Of Their Own Insignificance”. Drawings and paintings by Eden Kötting and animations by Glenn Whiting. The sound includes elements by Jem Finer and Buster Grey-Jung.

Andrew Kötting's film retraces John Clare's journey from Epping Forest to Northamptonshire accompanied by a straw bear.

Eden Kötting draws bright images on transparent glass, while talking with her dad about the world and the people who run it.