Sensitive Skin...
My work is an exploration of the issues around skin and body image informed by emotional and psychological responses. Also as a response to society's preoccupation with appearance and in an age where the body has never been more present.
Through my skin I have lived and dreamed a life from the inside out; I learn to conceal. I am wrapped and contained from head to toe, enclosed and separated from what is me and what is not me. A boundary between two worlds, a shattered shelter containing my identity, vulnerable, exposed, yet always changing. Every day it sheds its memories of changes, texture, scent, temperature and colour.
My skin tells its own story of loss and rejection, and of being used as a disguise to enter other worlds. I move in and out of different realms, through different states of being, a cast of characters in a film of skin. In my life I have shed a cast of a thousand skins. Certain sensitivities are played out in different states, moving from one condition to the next, leaving something of myself behind at each crossing. On the edge of each crossing I may stay a while as though in a timeless void and ask myself who am I now? What am I doing? Here in this place of change and transformation, it does not have a name, it is a place where anything could happen.
My skin arrives at the threshold, a border, a place of connection or separation, where my breathing, listening skin remembers names, places, angels, energies, animal forms, a different kind of soul.
Through the mediums of assemblages, camera, installations, film and text I have explored these issues and use them to tell a narrative for our time.