'Keeping up with the Joneses'

Jones. Australia, 1999.

Jones. Australia, 1999.

Jones. Australia, 1999.

Jones. Australia, 1999.

Jones. Australia, 1999.


Jones. Australia, 1999.

ABORIORI

Aboriori explores the representational boundaries of the self and body. The title is Latin and possesses great significance to this project as it directly relates to an actual circumstance and alludes to the situation being revealed. Its meaning is indicative of the experience and of the associated emotions of the subject, myself, that were experienced through a particular difficult time. The profundity of its meaning, ‘to perish’, holds a depth that, to me, narrates the entirety of the situation, that is, a young woman dealing with the impact of a decision to terminate a pregnancy, enduring the collapse of a seven year relationship and coping with the discovery of her fathers cancer.

RETRACE, REVEAL, REFLECT

A mirror can reveal increments of the emotional self.

A reflection can reconnect one to their physical self.

To reflect is to revisit- to return and to have another look. By doing so, one can retrace the steps with open eyes and then look once more and reassess.

TOO OLD FOR THIS

This series of theatrical images are true depictions of everyday life occurrences that I witnessed amongst the elderly women I worked and lived with - for several weeks at one time. In these performances, I am exploring identities of ‘the other’, the physical and the emotional, as an experiential exercise to awaken my senses - to truly empathize with these people and to emotionally understand them and their lifestyles. By inhabiting their clothes, figuratively, I am getting into their skins - a process that helped me to gain an insight into each individual. The foundation behind this was not only fuelled from an obsession with stability, nostalgia, ageing and death but also guilt – a guilt created through the voyeuristic gaze and its frequent misinterpretation.