MY HOME IS MY BODY

"Being estranged from my own body creates a distance, from which my work comes. My Home Is My Body is an attempt at resolution: to reunite my body and mind; to regain autonomy; to re-inhabit my own form. I view my body as a battleground, where the wars — of autoimmune disease and trauma-induced pain disorder — are waged within and against my self. Housed in my own body, this war brings fragility, threat, (in)security and (dis)comfort. My Home Is My Body externalises these feelings, projecting them onto domestic spaces and objects. This metaphor provides me with a unique perspective to critique from as the home is the place where we are most alert and most vulnerable to the body’s failings and ruptures with the mind.

The formal qualities of my work—colour, materiality and texture—interpret and transmit this estrangement and its resulting emotions. My Home Is My Body employs techniques of (re)processing to distance an image or material from its source and therefore, play with notions of expectations, change, and miscommunication."