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Labelled…
When reading about adoption there are certain words which are repeated by adoptees because they share similar emotions. This recent work includes just a few of these words. The work comprises of nine babygrows (representing nine months of pregnancy) and […]
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In the Search for Truth…
It is interesting reading the varied experiences adoptees encounter in the search for their origins…and the imagery it creates. One adoptee was quoted as saying, ‘There is nothing I could do about it; it’s over and done with, I would […]
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Separation
When a child is born, the umbilical cord is cut, separating the baby from its mother. When a child starts school, she is separated from her family. When two parents’ divorce, a family becomes fragmented. It was while walking along […]
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Blanket Book…
“Ode à l’oubli” was Bourgeois’ first book of fabric collages. The pages were made of linen hand towels from the artist’s wedding trousseau and are embroidered with the monogram “LBG” for “Louise Bourgeois Goldwater” (Bourgeois married Robert Goldwater in 1938). […]
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More about ‘Red’…
Louise Bourgeois and Boris Mikhailov at Tate Modern – July 2016 Red has already featured in my work as I mentioned in my blog on 13 July. It was made even more significant when I visited Tate Modern during the summer […]
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The Foundling Museum and ‘Found’ Exhibition, London…
In July I paid an interesting visit to The Foundling Museum, to glean ideas for my project. Definition of a foundling: orphan, waif, stray, ragamuffin, urchin, outcast Museum information: A token was left by the mother with her baby as […]
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Comfy blankets…
Looking at adoption from the birth mother’s perspective gives the adoptee an idea of the range of circumstances and emotions of mothers who either readily gave up their babies for adoption or who were, and still are, forced or bullied […]
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Printing and drawing…
From the painting of the seed (See 22nd April) I have made a linocut of the ‘veins’ of the shell of the physalis seed and experimented with printing. Printing the seed onto enlarged photocopies of old photographs…
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Seeing red…
Red is the colour…it is a constant reminder of what connects all life as well as linking families to each another and is symbolic for those individuals trying to re-connect with their origins. In relation to origins my seed idea […]
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The Wider Picture…
I have been researching more adoption information since the completion of this year’s semester and the subject is so broad it is difficult to stay on a particular track; although I will have to at some point. I have been […]
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The Parting…
For me, a painting evolves over a period of time because I like to test new ideas by experimenting with different techniques on the surface of the canvas. For example, I covered acrylic painted surface of the canvas with white […]
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Tokens…
More miniature babies arrived to crochet blankets for, to fill the spaces where chocolates would, inside the triangular chocolate box. The process of making gives me time to think and evaluate. At the moment I quite a few ideas on my […]