Today I am not the person I was yesterday and tomorrow I’ll be someone else.
This painting is about what it is to be ‘me’, in the figurative sense. Who am I, what am I? It applies to each and every one of us. The impossibility of defining oneself: when one tries, one ends up contradicting oneself.
We all have many faces; woman, mother, wife, artist, friend, daughter, etc. With each persona comes a different identity, albeit negligible at times. We react to situations and environments depending upon who we are at that time and how emotional we feel at that point.
The face in the painting is obviously not me but represents the impossibility of anyone knowing the real ‘me’ in all of us. It is difficult for us to know who we really are let alone anyone else.
I try to annihilate my work by doing the complete opposite of what I want to do: for example, if I instinctively want to harmonise a particular area, I will wilfully do the exact opposite and create discord. If I want to contrast a particular area then I will wilfully harmonise. This is a simultaneously exhausting and exhilarating experience and one I wouldn’t recommend to the faint-hearted.
The shapes, colours, textures and mixed media are all working for and against each other, coming together to form a cohesive oneness: me.
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