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Donald Judd’s 1964 text Specific Objects : “The thing as a whole, its quality as a whole, is what is interesting” ; or that “most sculpture is made part by part, by addition, composed”.

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acrylic, oil, house paint, on canvas

Gained inspiration and drive from Joan Mitchell and Jack Coulter

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Doll-Self

childhood, adolescence, adulthood

blood red thread for symbolism of blood, of something alive. Of anger maybe, the viewer can decide.

The self changes and morphs over time. The accumulation of thread onto the last figure represents a heightening in emotional chaos, and struggle. My self as I know it. Changing and hard to understand by each growth and death.

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Joan Mitchell 

Untitled, 1965

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Joan Mitchell in her studio, 1950s

more artists in their studios here

more Mitchell here

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depression is trying to create but not being able to love what u do. So you end up in the middle of it all, waiting, sitting, trying. 

But it is still, and your inner dialogue writing the story of your importance and existence simply stops. 

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Death with Girl in Her Lap, Käthe Kollwitz

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Illness makes you feel your story is empty and vapid, worthless. Your life is a story, is it being told or do you create it. These are questions of anxiety of future and being a human being. Mental sorrow makes the stories in your life, love, pain, sadness, happiness, solace ,feel,, like nothing, putting emotions on paper.

Time moves on, life’s pages change every second, new words are creased and drawn into our souls every day.

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broken heart and finally free , to move

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Movement in finding your way, searching.. ‘it’s ok to be lost’ .Mark making/printing, using random tools.

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Tape, tea, tattoo ink, watercolour, hands, scissors, caps, blowing air.

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Mark making, print techniques and painting using random tools.

Tattoo ink, watercolour, my hands, material on a stick, caps, thread dipped in paint/ink.

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sketchbook 3 & 4

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sketchbook 5

fingerprint ghosts

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sketchbook 6 & 9

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sketchbook 11 & 16

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‘smile while you weep’

oil on acrylic canvas paper

trying to use oil, cuz it’s beautiful and texture is so fun. Stay still and cry, movement in tears, in our faces, is our face our most evident book for reading emotion