PROJECT STATEMENT

We all wear masks day to day, blocking out our feelings and experiences for the sake of getting through the day, to survive and to protect others. Here I bring visual replications of these masks for all to see.

Through the fold forms an exploration into the human experience from a personal perspective. Through this project I allow audiences in using objects as symbols of memories, feelings and suspensory experiences.

This work also forms an exploration into the human form becoming a vehicle for expression, the subject herself becoming a prop or pedestal for the collected and made assemblages and costuming adorning her. Here the body is not separate from the materials, but in dialogue with them. Through the purposeful retaining of the subject’s anonymity the images form a negotiation between visibility and invisibility. Props become a shield protecting the subject from the world around her. These pieces are placed on a stage of sorts, metaphorically and literally exposed to viewers in a flow of fabric. A flow and form that brings forth themes of fluctuation.

Teetering still life’s further this exploration. Here meaning can be found in the materiality and in the process of constructing these assemblages. These externalise my and other’s internal state of imbalance. Between the portraits the still lifes form a conceptual backbone, a thread viewers can trace from metaphor to human presence.

From there the threads of meaning may feel familiar to viewers, experiences and feelings recognisable.