In a display, a background has different shades of red composed by blood-toned small words. Those were, according to some public available documents from that specific case, some of the words used to refer to Mary during the unlawful trial that stole the dignity of her reputation. In the front, a large word WITCH in white color grabs attention. Interacting with the piece, spectators can move the mouse around the screen to enlarger the word WITCH, which is filled with smaller words refering to adjectives used by Mary’s friends and family in a variety of letters, testemonies and petitions to try to save her life.
Over the course of the development of this piece, documentary archive was essential for acquiring real life knowledge over the memories of those women back then. I have personally read through the documents available from multiple cases but was particularly attracted to Bradbury’s sentence. This piece aims to conflict two narratives: one, in red, being built by the hegemonic groups constituting the power system; the second one, in white, being the testemony of more than 115 people that stood up for a single person, risking their own lives to make justice as they could.