As I prepare for my first solo exhibition, I realised I needed a place to explore in, to retreat to, and to basically get away with talking to myself.... and here it is! The theme of this exhibition is.... ta dum.... "It's Personal". It is the moment I have chosen to stop and feel, and to provide a space for my visual voice.


I find myself taking on the role of commentator of my own life's path. My art, my words, my poetry, my images are purely a personal commentary. Nothing more. Nothing less. I do not write to judge or to provide an opinion. That is for much wiser people than I. I 'do' simply to record, to share.... in short... to commentate..... to chronicle my journey, and it's personal.


So let's just start somewhere... and see where it goes....

I have grouped the various areas of my work into chapters. To follow the whole story of one area click on the green chapter to the right under the heading "chapters of my story".


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Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
I always struggle with this bit... the 'about me' bit. I never know what order to put things down in. I am many things at many times... oh the joys of motherhood where multi-tasking is a prerequisite!. Ok, so here goes, at any one time I can be: Mother, Wife and Lover, Artist, Company Director, Student, Chief Cook and Bottle Washer, Thinker, Seeker, Procrastinator, Dreamer, Philosopher, Supporter, Friend, Guide, and sometimes just a downright bewildered child trying to find my way through the noise and chaos that is life and people.

Homage to the Anonymous

Have you faced the void?
Have you been forced to stare into the cavernous depths that reach up and engulf the weary and the hearsick.?
Have you raged against the emptyness and yearned for your arms to be filled?
Have you been denied?

Have you talked in the dark of night to the child of your hopes and dreams but not of your reality?.

Have you felt the pain of loss, and been left to deal with the anonymity of your child?. The child that never took a breath?. The child that while so real to you, is nothing more than an uncomfortable topic of conversation not to be discussed?.

Have you walked the lonely path, anonymous in your grief and your yearning?

I have heard you. I have seen you. I am you.

This work is yours.

"Homage to the Anonymous" was a labour of love. While deceptively simple in its appearance, this work has many many hours of love, of thought, or hope poured in to it.

It has been created with hundreds of small squares of paper, cut from the faces in magazines and photos. Taken from the anonymous faces in anonymous magazines.

Each of these small fragile pieces of paper carry a tremendous burden. They represent all the faceless, nameless, anonymous women who know infertility.



This is a work in progress.... more to come.

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