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The Talking Cure

My brain is inhabited by a universe of people who look a little like you and me but tend to lack a limb or two. They are cheerful, standing tall in the face of absurdity and adversity. They balance delicately both physically and emotionally, seemingly ready to fall, but they never do. I have long been fascinated by what goes on in people’s minds when they look at art. What stories do they tell themselves? What emotions and memories are triggered? I have made work that deals explicitly with memory, childhood and family, subjects with a strong psychological bent. I’m as interested in what others think the pieces are “saying” as in what has motivated me to make them in the first place.
Agrosia
Angry Girl
Class
Couple II
Double Bind
Hear
Myopic
See
The Queen’s Advice
Aphasia
Conversation
Dance
Friends
If the Shoe Fits
Regression
Snake Eyes
Tongue Tied
Bye Dad
Couple I
Dancer/Wolf
Gawker
Mr. Friendly
Say
Stainless
Family
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