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.
‘What is a female body? I’m female but I’ve never seen my body as a female body. I see it as my body. The suit I was born in. I’ve always felt so much pressure to be something because of those words ‘female body’; to be that image or to live up to it. I never quite understood that. My body is mine, it is what it is. I respect it for what it is, in whatever form.”
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. ODE is an ongoing photographic project. What is it that binds us?
When I look in the mirror, I see myself. I see someone in search of 'home' while reflecting 'home' in all that she does.’ A dialogue, a collective research into our place in the world in some shape or form. It will be a mix of documentary, staged and collages that I will make during research. Building multi-layered narrative that maybe raises more questions than bring answers, hinting at the untold tales that lie behind their creation. Finding visual vocabulary that brings together all findings.
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.
‘What is a female body? I’m female but I’ve never seen my body as a female body. I see it as my body. The suit I was born in. I’ve always felt so much pressure to be something because of those words ‘female body’; to be that image or to live up to it. I never quite understood that. My body is mine, it is what it is. I respect it for what it is, in whatever form.”
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. ODE is an ongoing photographic project. What is it that binds us?
When I look in the mirror, I see myself. I see someone in search of 'home' while reflecting 'home' in all that she does.’ A dialogue, a collective research into our place in the world in some shape or form. It will be a mix of documentary, staged and collages that I will make during research. Building multi-layered narrative that maybe raises more questions than bring answers, hinting at the untold tales that lie behind their creation. Finding visual vocabulary that brings together all findings.
