In my work, I’m intrigued by in-between states, moments of change and transformation in our lives. They can be uncomfortable. Fear and defensiveness can make us try to escape the uncertainty of change, of having to leave what is comfortable and familiar to us. I’ve tried to capture something of this struggle, something of what it feels like to be caught between one thing and another. What it feels like to be vulnerable, to be confused, to be afraid. To be alive.

In one sense I’m trying to embody what the psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott describes as ‘the space between inner and outer worlds.’ – a ‘transitional space’.

Dreams act as a stage for this liminality, where our psyche can come alive. Between sleep and consciousness, we can experience conflicts we struggle to resolve. We yearn for fixity, concealing from ourselves our fear growth and change.
It is a struggle that inspires this work. Living with uncertainty we are caught between two worlds, yearning for expression and transformation. To bring darkness into light.

‘Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow.’

TS Elliot – The Hollow men

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