About the Works
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Self-Exile Series: ​
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These works are inspired by the idea of isolation, exclusion and being away from home; they are also about discovery at the same time. What happens when we displace ourselves from our homes? Is it possible to self-exile oneself? Home has become a subjective concept for many of us. This is especially true when we consider home from the view of displaced refugees, the homeless, the housing crisis, relocation due to climate change, gentrification, and other ways of being away from home. When I moved to Asia, I decided to make works inspired by the idea of leaving home and discovering aesthetical cultural nuances. For these works, I created amalgamations using photomontage techniques inspired by the places I had visited.
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Remote Portraits:
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As the world changed in early 2020 with the impact of Covid 19, I began to observe the visual influence it had on many of us as we moved to working online. It may be too early to know the long term impact this has had on our psychology, and physiology. I started to take visual notes of the online body language which was fascinating and a little disturbing at times. The way we interact with each other online is not the same as being in person with someone. These portraits were mainly inspired by working online during the 3 month lockdown in Shanghai 2022, as well as other lockdowns.
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Not Dash Bored:
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For this series of works; or observations rather, I became fascinated with the embellished dashboards I experienced travelling in taxis through Asia. It is human nature to make our mark on the things that belong to us. We decorate our homes with art, we carry photos of our loved ones in our wallets (or on our phone screens), we place objects and signifiers onto the inanimate objects we frequently encounter to convey a message to the world. We are makers, creators at nearly every level and aspect of life. The taxi dashboard is yet another space in which people clearly feel the need to personalise, beautify, make a mark on, and create opportunities for discussions with visual attention.
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