‘Machine I’ and ‘exposure’ video installation
 
 
 
 
 
‘ My work arises from an ongoing investigation into the interrelationship between the body and the physical world. The work has moved from my previous interest in how the female body should be represented to the question of subjectivity. What it means to inhabit this body. The exploration of the use of the body as a site through which to explore perceptual awareness and ‘aspects’ of our being is central to my concerns. I use video, installation, photography and performance to research subjectivity. The work is often process led and evolves from what I see and do. For example I have worked in hotels, which I have been drawn to whilst out walking. I integrate myself into these hotel spaces enabling self and other to merge together displaying a transformative state. The images I create are mystical in the sense that they attempt to reveal the mystery of what is unperceived but is at work under the surface of what we can actually see. I am fascinated with the science and process of photography. Currently I am experimenting with the earliest type of photography to shape my ideas and become one with them. I have performed and made images by using my body as a camera joining together interior and exterior spaces, through using the orifice of my mouth as the camera body, to clasping my hands together to form an aperture and using a ‘pendulum’ which contains apertures for the lips and hands. Underlying this work is the ritual of creating with my own body. The marks of my bodily processes are inscribed on to the image in the form of fingerprints, teeth marks and particles of saliva containing my historical traces of being. This work reveals the body as matter and process and questions the notion of the body as a container for the self. Overall my work is created through the influence of the history of photography, endurance, spirituality, ritual and representation.