December 2023
Norwich University of the Arts
Artists’ blocks, my favourite colour is plaid.
Work in progress: Wooden blocks and A1 digital prints of scanned blocks.
Working with the physical and drawing on a series of 16 blocks, drawing beyond the gaps was an interesting process. Gaps in the rendering of the drawing feel like gaps to fill in my identity. Are the gaps cracks to be navigated? Is the identity enough?
My starting point was thinking about authentication, the use of the term ‘shibboleth’ and interrogating otherness. (Am I) Are we included? Excluded? Which group/s?
How l present myself causes tension with the ways I’ve been taught to appear and behave. I always want to challenge this, to play with gender conformity and identity.
We can cover the cracks to conform, but in death they are still remembered.
Hopefully.
