Provisional Bodies
Provisional Bodies is an ongoing series in which I asked myself how to build a new body. In a bout of a chronic flare up, working mostly from my home, I decided to start cannibalising my belongings to make body-sized sculptures. Colanders, blankets, coat hangers, table legs all became the skeletons and armatures of new bodies which I later encased in membranes of handmade paper. The handmade paper, having dried and shrunk around the underlying forms, gave hints to its interior objects but also obscured the inner mechanisms at play. This project has been threaded into my studio practice over many years, and while it has changed and shifted, it has always pushed me to investigate my gravitation towards using found objects in my work; I’ve come to really believe that our bodies are not so separate from the objects and contexts of our surroundings