The human body is a place where emotions are most directly registered. Being a site for the propagation of individual as well as collective memory, the body naturally retains emotional detritus from the past and allows it to manifest physically.
These works describe emotion anatomically.
Watercolour is a compelling medium with a life of its own, producing soft shapes as if grown. Its most unpredictable peculiarities are revealed when flooding the surface and allowing the colours to bleed and seep into each other. This process elicits the medium’s distinctive capacity to represent the body and simulate organic form.
The floating shapes and unfocused edges, with their sensual physicality and unique energy, further imply a sense of journey and evolving transformation. Using exotic colour, gaudy and discordant, the works simultaneously connect and dissolve memory, time and space. We see incubation and diagnosis, inoculation and resistance, chemical and biological risks made manifest.
With both a botanical and zoological feel, blushed hues find an uneasy intersection, often with an air of decomposition as if bruised. We are left with a migration of myriad forms.
In an attempt to examine contemporary life in its increasingly unstable surroundings, I aim to look at the correlation between us and our environment. I illustrate this relationship through exposure of physical, chemical and biological risk factors, and through depicting changes in our behaviour in response to those issues.
