Route/Glass Landscape (2021) depicts a personal path of recovery resulting from my experiences with surgery and confinement during the lockdown. This sculpture features glass panels that I didn't get to include in the 1metre version. My work Glass Landscape consists of seven glass photographic panels and serves as a smaller model for my larger artwork sculpture Route (2021). I have been drawing on lessons from resilience in nature, as a way of representing my own emotions and desire to adapt after life's challenges.īoth of my artistic processes are related to the impact surgery had on me I use economical photographic methods (developing photographic negatives with coffee/soda washing/vitamin C or plants) that are considered a lower risk to health, which I then display onto glass to convey fragility. I wanted to show domesticity (which was my landscape during lockdown) by creating indoor self-portraiture influenced by a natural adaptation outside. Route has resulted in a sequence of photographic diptychs, one larger and one smaller sculpture. Conceptually, I decided to explore how external factors affect appearance and draw comparisons with my own body post-surgery observing the idea that humans and nature both go through challenges. I wanted to demonstrate a motivation to be out more in nature while inside during lockdown (2020-2021), and to reflect the connection between myself, my body, and the adaptations found there. I have been exploring a personal examination of bodily and mental fragility which stemmed from a surgical experience in 2019. Route illustrates a journey of personal recovery.
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