ARTIST STATEMENT

The unspeakable truth

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Subconscious memories that make up your identity in a mirrored box

Reflections of everything around you good, bad, everything

Influences that makeup part of who you are

What was before you, What was after you

The infinity of not knowing the beginning of influence or its end.

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My work explores issues around grief and loss. I am trying to find ways to express how grief is always there when someone passes away.  During times of grief how we perceive things can be distorted when emotions and senses are heightened. The idea of inherited influences; a person's life is influenced by our own, and how we inherent influence from our predecessors.

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My journey so far has led to the use of infinity mirrors, which, despite their name, lose approximately 7% of their strength upon each reflection, so are not actually infinite at all. Like grief, over time and distance, it loses strength.

The structures are made of mirrored panes on a steel stand, minimalist in style, they are freestanding and require space to walk around and view them. Soundwaves are made using LED lights created of speech quotes from my own reference. I take stills from the soundwave and recreate the words using laser cut Perspex and insert the LED lights into the Perspex. These are then placed inside the mirrors so that they are repeatedly reflected in the mirror. The waveforms of speech are not intended to be read as words. Sometimes words cannot express what we are trying to say when communicating delicate matters.