Frozen Flowers
The Frozen Flowers project is about the memory we chose to preserve in our minds. By freezing, the illusion of eternal perfection is maintained. Freezing a flower in its bloom encapsulates the notion of beauty and love at its peak, the moment before death becomes inevitable. The samurai philosophised that things are most splendid at the moment before they fall, and to aim to live and die in a similar fashion.
The abduction of Persephone
The myth of Persephone comes from Greek mythology dating back to the writings of Homer during the 8th century BC and explores the mother daughter relationship, albeit within a patriarchal value system.
This body of work is about daughter becoming mother and remaining daughter at the same time. It is about me, my daughter and my mother, it is about an abduction of the self, a self that becomes split.
According to popular psychology, when one is existing concurrently as the self, the daughter and the mother, we bounce between the identification of one and the other. Boundaries are blurred and yet we resist separation with any one of these three positions.
Our awareness of the self as a distinct solitary self is reduced and we live in a symbiotic stage, where these three identities are incorporated into one. Our children mirror us in themselves, while we see the echoes of ourselves and blend them to our new self.
I have felt both lost and found in this new role of self, daughter, mother.
