Kaleidoscope

Such an interesting chat online about how the recent pieces (made up of the hundreds of now torn up drawings from the 90s mashed up with tiny texts and copies from the old photo albums) are reminiscent of a kaleidoscope.

A kaleidoscope is such an interesting umbrella term to call the series.
A kaleidoscope made up of a number of reflections.

They work on the principle of MULTIPLE reflections. One is the actual object, the rest are reflections creating symmetrical patterns. Now the new pieces have been made up of 2,3 or 4 smaller elements stitched together by a 'band' that holds them together (healing/promoting knitting together/making a scar) they have an uncanny symmetrical feel...
A 'mirroring' which I have explored in earlier work.

As well as hinting at the scarring of bodies and the continual renewal of skin the pieces also hint possibly at a continual play with different patterns and formations of the SAME motifs and narratives that spill out differently each time a new piece is made.

So I'm hoping to write more soon about how the reflecting/mirroring that may or may not happen when we try and forget/ reorganise/obsess about deep or recurring memories plays out in my new pieces.

I should try to develop these ideas for a project bid to work with other disciplines in the researching of these ideas.

First image
Untitled from 1995(?)
Pastel on paper
Second image
Agnes, Millie, Mum Version 2
papier mache, pva glue, gold paint and gouache