LIGHT INTERIORS
‘Light Interiors’ makes the link between past and present and attempts to capture the ephemeral prose and poetry of people’s lives.
Working with the physical characteristics of light, the way it is distributed through doors, windows and openings offers an opportunity to be read and interpreted as signs.
The home is portrayed as an archive, the artefacts captured are not documents but instead a collection of distilled memories. The fabric of the building provides the backdrop and the unifying link for these projected images, recalling memories, emotions and desires. A child’s birthday party, a hospital scan, a formal portrait, interweaved with the remembered vignettes of daily life that form our perception of home. The undeniable physical journey is referenced in the scans and ultrasound. Over time a woman’s body changes, reorienting her physical purpose and direction in the world. There is a conflicting sense of loss and gain, drawing attention to both the joys, expectations and sorrows that permeate the home. This body of work is a testament that parenthood does not function as an obstacle to making art, but can be an additional material to be mined.
‘The decision of whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, well-being and dignity. When the government makes that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a full adult human responsible for her own choices.’
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
