The Magickal Body – Text and Image

Abstract

Artist’s Statement – Topography of Myth

As a border walker I am continually exploring questions around the inherent meaning of fiction and myth, authority, power and cultural concepts of origin, using various methods in my practice as means to engage, wandering between installation, object, photography, printmaking and artists’ books, the inherent materiality being essential. Significantly, the relationship between the permanence of the porcelain, with the vulnerability of paper, hair and other organic material.

Using a methodology of walking, whether drifting or purposefully revisiting certain places, I attempt to explore notions of genius loci, examining the topography of myth in order to map a forensics of transgressive happenings as essential to the human condition.

In combining concepts of the stratalogical unconscious with the lay of the land, my practice continues to focus on notions of heterotopia, interweaving the psychogeographic experience with elements of esoteric initiation while questioning the shifting relations between the sacred and the profane in both urban and rural environments.

My more recent work has furthermore engaged with feminist notions of the personal as political, taking the standpoint of an ‘other’ regarding the visceral experience of the witch in relation to nature and site, as interpreted through ritual performance.

June 2018