Jelly Slits

About

Through material and form I explore perceived boundaries of the body, objects and the physical and psychological spaces we inhabit. These frontiers are permeable, mutable and active, alive with the grotesque and the surreal. I am interested in how things that reside at the borders of things operate - skin is a boundary, and the body is a container. The surreal house can then be seen as a container object of grotesque bodies and this is a starting point for my work to evolve from. Bodiliness, flesh, and objects alluding to the body merge with everyday objects from the domestic world. The manipulation and abstraction of the human form, and its distortion, fragmentation and change of state is a challenge to logic and reason. The insides and outsides, the horror of the other - the horror of the unknown. I am interested in how these ideas relate to our sense of being and placement in our surroundings, the materiality of the body and how we experience inhabiting our bodies.

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