Conversations with Myself

As the protagonist performing as assorted characters, I indulge in the craft of art to explore themes of identity relating to womanhood, motherhood, domesticity and marriage, and the embodiments for the individual of courage, strength, and resilience, with relentless tenacity. The work is a nod to the past embedded within and the dictated roles I’ve adopted unconsciously, a portrait of a psychological exploration, and a quiet recognition of the emergence and disengagement from that past and adoption of a new way of seeing and being. I am often a mystery to myself, surrounded by these dictates. Who am I? Like an actor in costume playing a role we try on different ideas, to tell the stories of who we are, or wish to be. On a daily basis, we slip into clothing like costumes or uniforms and perform the roles we’ve chosen, or have chosen us. We rotate and shed them from a closet full of personas we inhabit, over the course of a lifetime. This is a work about getting acquainted.