It is important for me to use my work as a means of exploring and potentially understanding human behaviour as manifested through images it constructs of itself. Typically, my practice involves a number of strategies such as exploration of popular mass media, philosophical texts, and speculative fiction, which I build into a ‘cosmology’ using imagined myth, symbol and fable. My practice both reflects and is placed within these imagined cosmologies.

Currently I am investigating ways in which the ‘other’ might be shown through imagery of the black female, viewing this ‘other’ as an integral part of the self as “without the ‘other’ ‘the self’ is ‘threatened with irradiation into the void” (Baudrillard, 1993, p.122) and the notion of ‘modification’, making links with ideas of Cyborg and the artificially created subject whom I call “Diva” a cumulative stereotype a composite, a collaged being, a perpetual evocation of ‘myself’, ‘the self’, and ‘the other’.

I paint with Encaustic Wax overlayed with oil paint and combined with collage and mixed media to create hybrid points of transferral where such divisions as ego, alter-ego and other disappear infering a continual adaptation and rearrangement of identity. Inherent within this is fragmentation, rupture, contradiction, and multiplicity as analogy to the human, technological and social conditions of contemporary society.