GATES / GATEWAYS
Gates as portals- entrances to other places- physical, psychological and emotional. This series explores this folded nature of our subjective selves, and our relationship to the world from both physical and phenomenological perspectives. I have attempted to create objects, which when worn renegotiate the relationship between subject and object, activating space, the senses and the body. There is an attempt to make sense of the life world: to the other, to space, to time, perception and sensation. These gates are an attempt to mediate our relationship to the world;
First exhibited at Te Auaha gallery Wellington in November 2020, as part of Handshake6 group exhibition ‘Signing In’.