Enclosures

Each small box is flattened, scored, and printed so that the natural crumples and creases

interweave with unnatural scars inflicted by circumstance.  

They echo a physical reality, the plans of homes, our limitations. 

Delicate scored lines circle and cross denoting our paths as occupants. 

Simultaneously they conjure our internal world,

Marks and colours evoking our spinning thoughts and state of mind,

Meditating on our varying experience of containment and enclosure. 

During Lockdown, I began to draw on found paper boxes.  These unconscious drawings became an exploration of our experience of enclosure, developing into prints, sculptures, and installation. The nature of the boxes, their folds, creases, labels, braille, meant that I was not drawing onto a blank surface but interweaving my intentions within a surface of found marks.  Seen in different ways, they have evolved:  turned from flattened prints, back into boxes, as sculptures holding their shape and fragility with a more extreme sense of restriction.  And now, they float in a cloud-like installation.

To see the prints in this series please click HERE