Crowd Series 2010, ongoing
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My current work investigates crowd dynamics and the body language of individuals within group scenarios. I am interested in the negative spaces between individual bodies as much as the points where bodies overlap. Where hybrid bodies and faces form through superimposed layers, the notions of intercorporeality and corporeal fluidity are explored.
My interest in crowds stemmed from a curiosity about physical and psychological proximity between individuals in public space. Feelings of selfhood and selflessness change depending on many variables such as whether the culture is collectivist or individualist. I am asking through my work how and why we transcend our feelings of separation and disappear into the group or environment.
By bringing media images into a subjective space using printing and drawing, I am able to explore my personal idealizations of social relationships, and engage in a visual dialogue between culture and imagination.