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Archive: Misha Myers Hevva Hevva performed on Friday 21 July at Jubilee Pool, Penzance Promenade
Visitors to Jubilee Pool were greeted by what appeared to be a bulky weather beaten book bearing the title
‘Ledger of losses’ that was fixed to the railings. They were invited to disclose anything they had lost, and
did so frankly and obligingly. Wisdom teeth, mobile phones, and sandals were included, but so too were the
more emotive losses of parents, children and other loved ones, to the extent that reading the book was a
rather moving experience.
Micha Myers, wearing a dark anorak and sou’ester, then graciously offered to escort them to the side of the
pool looking towards the ocean, and express their loss in semaphore to the sea. Rather than use international
semaphore she used the messaging system employed traditionally by Newlyn fisherman following the shoal of
pilchards, together with the cry ‘Hevva Hevva’.
Mingled with the sound of distant gulls the intoned words had a spooky quality, as something resurrected
from the dead, and Micha herself took on the visage of a ghostly figure from the past.
Although the losses were those of contemporary inhabitants of Cornwall they also seemed to speak of the losses
of those that came before them, as well as the loss of customs and traditions and language.
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