Entwined

'Entwined' is a photo-series using the body and mirrors in order to explore the idea of self within relationships. Where are the boundaries between self and other? How do we distort ourselves in order to become one with another person?

The soft colours allude to the enchantment of love. The bodies become entangled and entwined, not knowing where one begins and one ends. A blending of lives which can also lead to the loss of self. The works are in part homage one of the most famous images of carnal /romantic love in art, Rodin’s the Kiss, which was initially conceived to depict the adulterous couple of Dante’s Inferno, interestingly and quite radically for the 19th century, the woman is an equal partner in desire. This key factor is also important in the homage these images pay to Hans Breder’s body sculptures. As he used women’s bodies as ‘sculptural objects’. Here the artists own body is used alongside her partners. The act of creation here is both performative, visual and conceptual.