My Imaginarium

(10-16 Sept): 'HANGING BY A THREAD' (2020).

This is a picture of me taken by in 2018, with my hair cut short as a sign of mourning for the loss of my younger sister and printed in 2020, about life size, on a tissue paper thin material to symbolise how fragile mental health can be.

In 2022, I stretched this delicate picture to a mount with a single continuous 8m long length of red thread.

Irregularity of the stitches (forward, backward, uneven spacing, missing a few holes here and there) is a metaphor for the path through life.

Every stich could have potentially torn the picture as meters of thread were pulled through each hole. Most of them sustained a degree of significant entanglement and subsequent disentanglement.

The very last stitch doesn’t close the loop. Instead it ends in an engorgement… This represents the negative thought process spiralling down, as if no matter how much one tries, one cannot turn back time and ends up ruminating about regrets.

The needle was left into the Artwork, as a reminder that the pain never goes away. One can only learn how to live with it.

The final result is a depiction of the Artist "Hanging by a Thread" both figuratively and literally.

(10-16 Sept): 'HANGING BY A HAIR' (2022).

I've been revisiting some of my work directly related to this topic including this piece produced over several years.

The picture was taken by Neil Marshment Photography in 2018. It shows my short hair which I cut in mourning for the loss of my younger sister.

In 2020 I printed it, about life size, on a tissue paper thin material to symbolise how fragile mental health can be.

In 2022, I stretched this delicate picture with my own black and grey hair to a mount.

Every stitch presented its own challenge due to the nature of the paper which can become easily distressed when handled and of the hair, which resisted being tied in a a knot.

The final result is a depiction of the Artist "Hanging by a Hair" both figuratively and literally.

At the Royal Academy of Arts, super excited and so much looking forward to Marina Abramovic Institute's next show there (23rd September 2023 to 1st January 2024). Marina's retrospective will be the first solo show by a female artist at the RA in history!