In this one-minute video, the artist Jillian Mayer can be seen announcing at the start that she will one day have a baby. The rest of her announcement is then voiced by a succession of outlandish characters wearing masks, headdresses and excessive makeup, who sing:
And you will call her Mom.
That baby will have a baby,
and you will have this song, to know that:
I am your Grandma.

“I am your Grandma” turns out to be the refrain to the little song, which continues:
So this is a gift I give to you,
like I already said,
that there was a time I was aware
that one day I’d be dead.

I wish we could have met.
I would have hugged you so.
But you are in the future.
So you get loved by video.”

Mortality and the cycle of life and death are at the heart of this work. The artist addresses someone who is not yet born, and whom she will never meet. Her grandmotherly affections and feelings are transmitted trans-generationally, and digitally.

Also displayed on the Annka Kultys stand at Nada Miami is one of Mayer’s colorful “Slumpy” sculptures – artworks that viewers are invited to slump on as they gaze intently at their smartphone screens.