Artist’s Statement
Movement is fundamental – the moving images of the world around us, the moving sounds in constant flux and change, the shifting contexts of human relationships, and of our relationship with the world in which we find ourselves.
We live through our senses. Our emotions hang by a thread, responding to the smallest changes. Our eyes see, our ears hear, our noses smell, our fingers touch, our mouths taste.
Sensuality; Mind and body; the slippage between opposites; Physical and psychological.
Through visual metaphors and paradoxes, ideas relating to the human experience are formed.
Visceral images of food moving beneath a clean white surface; veiled screens with mouths that appear to be talking while emitting no sound; the familiar sitting room scene, transported into the clammy, claustrophobic, dark space of the coal shed, with the sound of raging fire, suffocating heat, claustrophobic intensity.
Stripping away layers, our skins, we reveal the vulnerable, unexposed flesh, both physical and psychological. We fear and resist knowing, understanding, seeing and touching what is hidden beneath the surface.
Paradox, conflict, poetic connections seep through the layers, the sense of normality fighting back the fear, the pleasure holding back the pain.
We act and react. Our physical experiences lead us to make intellectual conclusions about the world around us. As we move from one situation to another our responses change – between rooms, between buildings, with others, or alone.
Transcending the boundaries of a specific site and subject, the work also addresses broader ideas, deeper reactions, moving the viewer to contemplate concepts such as transience, mortality, and the impossibility of true communication.