The Snake In My Face

This project, entitled 'The Snake In My Face,' presents a personal encounter with plant medicine and hypnotherapy. Emerging at a time of confinement and unease, the work takes the shape of a travelogue, documenting my attempt to heal emotional wounds concealed in the shadowy inner landscape. The bedroom, along with the hypnotherapist's office, become environments where I dive into the forgotten scenes of the past, and attempt to retrieve a sense of lost vitality. At the moment of emotional release, when successful, I document the fragmentary thought-forms attached to the hidden emotions stored away in the flesh. In the photographic darkroom, developing photograms, I turn my attention towards the discarded, and integrate the messages into an assemblage of rubbish and free-hand drawings. This way, the paper contains an act of surrender to the present moment, mirroring a more complete presence. In time, a personal mythology develops, that draws influence from lived experience, the state of hypnosis and Eastern thought.