Introduction

Like a detective viewing his surroundings I watch a scene carefully, observing the behaviour of its ‘actors’ without preconceptions. Recordings of their behaviour and its traces are the starting points for imagined social narratives.

I’m fascinated by the aesthetic and methodological lexicon of scientific research.
I appropriate elements from sociology, psychology, behavioural research and anthropology. In my work their role as tools for advancing knowledge is diminished, instead I am engaged in an exploration which doesn’t attempt to find out truths about the world.

Broadly speaking I deal with notions of losing the Self. My involvement with this idea can be traced both through my subject matter as well as through my use of meticulous and repetitive processes such as embroidery and detailed pencil drawing which engender a ‘loss of self’ while I make the work.

This preoccupation raises related questions that I examine in my practice: What is a self/ an identity? What forms this and is it actually possible to lose oneself? How does the Self relate to the Other? And in what way does the Other influence or determine the behaviour of the Self?