Conversations With Myself
The images from Conversations with Myself, are visual dialogs that intimately explore my relationships, between and within myself and others.
Originally inspired by a collection of found and inherited garments and objects in varied domestic locations with beautiful light, I conjure up cinematic tableaus that draw on memory and cultural iconography using myself as a stand in for any woman, performing a moment of contemplation, as if in the past and present past simultaneously.
Transported during the session, each image suggests a narrative beyond the frame. The presence of absence is pervasive and nods to time and temporality.
In each image, the work suggests a resignation or surrender and a questioning of the many roles assumed and imposed by and on women societally as wives, mothers and lovers, absorbed and adopted as the norm from magazine articles, advertisements and film, generally from male dominated authorship.
The images ask if and to what degree the terrain has shifted, as I and we collectively consider each scenario from the perspective of ourselves, male and female, our mothers, and our daughters.
