Jump on through (to the other side)
2021
Artist statement: In ‘Jump on through (to the other side)’, I explore the loss of my mother, who died 38 years ago and remains faceless in my memory. From the series Dis/appear II, I use myself, dressed in my dead dad’s safari suit, to perform both a lament for my parents and a metaphysical search for my mother's face. In this work, the desert acts as an analogy for death and as a place of comfort and refuge.
This work represents an ongoing examination of death and personal loss. In it, I investigate lamentation as a necessary yet optimistic viewpoint that suggests psychological shifts, creating both an awareness of our limitations, and our connection to each other and to a greater whole.
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