'Ecdysis' series, 2008

Liberation of thought is linked to a process of cleaning up, a surveying of one's
lineage through considered family relics and emotional possibilities of the new. 
I recently met a man who, on the brink of selling an old family house, wanted to deal
with the burden of his heritage and its secrets to create a clearing, a shedding of
artifacts, in which his own identity could be constructed independently. Considering
his identification processes through my practice, which has been occupied with the significance of objects relating to personal and cultural memory, I wished to
re-address the contemporary pressure to reinvent and to define the ideas of
self-growth. Objects are removed and displaced through the use of collage to reveal
another psychological stratum. These works can be read as metaphors, for the opening
up of the unconscious, portals to other worlds, and accentuates the role of objects
as vessels for memory.

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