ODE is a body of work that began oscillating at the edges of consciousness in 2017 as little ideas and imaginings at first; reflections and wonderings that crossed my mind when I looked into the mirror, or talked to other women, or spent time alone traversing natural terrains. Confronted with myself and my environment in a way she hadn’t been before, I started to consider what it truly means to be a woman, and slowly but surely, while feeling around the edges of the subject through a process of intuitive visual research, a constellation of images and collages emerged.
What binds the works in ODE together are intertwining threads of form and feeling, movement and gesture, history and culture both personal and shared, as well as an overarching preoccupation with the ways that womanhood has always been represented and explored. The ritual of taking pictures hinges on a moment of connection between two people each searching for their own things,intertwining journeys, hinting at the untold tales. In some images, I reduces the bodies of women to mere sculptural matter, cutting out and collaging them into altered forms, while in others photographs of women are interspersed with clusters of flowers still rooted in the ground hollowed out to reveal the abstract spaces inside of them.
Individually, these works speak of solitude or connection, but together they merge to form an affective meditation on how change weathers and shapes us until in the end, they transcend the site of the female body entirely; becoming instead shifting, emotional responses to the ways our bodies hold us, despite conflicts both inner or external. Always of visualising how our bodies adapt and remain, folding into their surroundings as parts of a greater whole. Through illusory glimpses of women in both domestic spaces and out in the natural world, a new and intuitive way of experiencing space both private and shared
ODE is an ongoing photographic project. What is it that binds us?
ODE is a body of work that began oscillating at the edges of consciousness in 2017 as little ideas and imaginings at first; reflections and wonderings that crossed my mind when I looked into the mirror, or talked to other women, or spent time alone traversing natural terrains. Confronted with myself and my environment in a way she hadn’t been before, I started to consider what it truly means to be a woman, and slowly but surely, while feeling around the edges of the subject through a process of intuitive visual research, a constellation of images and collages emerged.
What binds the works in ODE together are intertwining threads of form and feeling, movement and gesture, history and culture both personal and shared, as well as an overarching preoccupation with the ways that womanhood has always been represented and explored. The ritual of taking pictures hinges on a moment of connection between two people each searching for their own things,intertwining journeys, hinting at the untold tales. In some images, I reduces the bodies of women to mere sculptural matter, cutting out and collaging them into altered forms, while in others photographs of women are interspersed with clusters of flowers still rooted in the ground hollowed out to reveal the abstract spaces inside of them.
Individually, these works speak of solitude or connection, but together they merge to form an affective meditation on how change weathers and shapes us until in the end, they transcend the site of the female body entirely; becoming instead shifting, emotional responses to the ways our bodies hold us, despite conflicts both inner or external. Always of visualising how our bodies adapt and remain, folding into their surroundings as parts of a greater whole. Through illusory glimpses of women in both domestic spaces and out in the natural world, a new and intuitive way of experiencing space both private and shared
ODE is an ongoing photographic project. What is it that binds us?
