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I employ the visual language of ceremony to investigate the everyday. I use visual systems (drawing, self portraiture and image) to question how convention (a cultural system), informs us.
Space is important in my work, implied/psychological as well as real/physical. Through my work I find differences in my inner life as compared to my outer appearance - headspace versus physical space- not unlike those games for children in newspapers where you have to find the difference between two images.
I am interested in how objects or images can stand outside of and document a moment--like how a photograph, a panel of wallpaper or a bouquet circumscribe an event or a memory. These objects are metaphors for desire and longing--in between moments are captured and can never be experienced again (forever missed, outside). The work becomes a reminder, like a souvenir penny, stamped with the place and date of my trip.
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