My previous work focused on the experience of living in the family home until the age of thirty-three and the effects it has upon identity and the sense of self. Marrow explores a new stage in my personal development. We see the robust bushes claiming there landscape, showing their vitality and impregnable roots.Something I am striving for.
This series is a representation of my overwhelmingly claustrophobic feelings towards living in the family home as a thirty something and the oppression and its effects on the search for ones identity in the world. With a staggering number of people in their thirty’s forced with the same situation, the feeling of inadequacy fails to relent. This work tries to convey the emotional, economic and psychological ties to the subject matter.
The revelation of identity through repeated views on the body evokes an idea that human knowledge and experience is built-up over a period of time in the search for self hood. The self is always present but impossible to pin down, so through the process of creating and viewing these depictions of myself they work as a remedy to my frustrations but also they enable me negotiate an identity for myself. Sexual fulfilment is also linked with the issue of needing ones personal space. The body is frustrated and searching for an outlet. This is where the landscape images come into play. Symbolising not only the female body but also emancipation and power.
This work is part of an ongoing study of the self, using landscapes and self-portraits to reveal my journey to the viewer. The landscapes are an accumulation of my close surroundings, each containing different fragments of my existence. The self-portraits aim to portray my most inner emotions found when one really looks inside and starts to accept themselves.
Part of a work in progress depicting my own self identity, which is captured by a variety of familiar surrounding landscapes, all of which enable me to connect with memories past and present. The self-portraits represent different aspects I have discovered about myself along the way, along with strength, which grows throughout the project. These images serve as part of the make up of my own personal identity
