A series of paintings/writings/sculptures around ideas of identity, heritage, encounters, and revelation.  Using materials, memories and experiences real or imagined, gestures and punctuations, these fabricated constructs contain ruptures and imperfections giving access to the layers and creating new spaces. The surface may also be interrupted by inclusions of text from poems, reflective/shiny things and re-used materials; it is time to own ALL that we are, reveal our scars and strengths, let them shine. #sensuouspractice #foldswhorlssurfacesspaces                                                               
SEE ME       I AM      AMAMIHE / WISE - it is in my DNA, my scars bear witness to my strength and resilience; this is who I am / have been / will be.
A keeper of secrets, an observer of life and a repository of knowledge; still of body, active of mind, processing information at phenomenal speeds, through multiple times and dimensions. My colours flicker and emerge from deep space, I am ready to share.  A poem accompanies this painting:     
 
Sticks and stones never broke my bones, but names have always harmed me 
So, I lived in fear, lived with the fear of my potential to be great
To blaze a swathe of light before me, around me, through time and space                   
I have mastered the litany of fear
I have closed my ears and soul to the sounds of other's judgement
Ever hopeful I now expose myself, my light and shade
I release my colours, I SHOUT MY NAME                                            
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