I did these series of photographs for a number reasons one being to get used to my new digital camera and to working in a proper studio where i had control over the lighting and also in order to look at the way objects are gendered in society. this interests me also as my work tends to start with an object and i have been looking for new ones to re excite my work... however from these photos and a seminar on dualism i have now begun to think about it differently..... i am currently reading Neil Gaiman book Fragile Things and i am begining to refocus back on the body as the sourch of my work... re reading old work statements ect.

i am looking away from feminism for the time being and back into writers that i enjoy as i feel the strain of trying to decide on the politic of my work is making my not want to do any... gosh im blunt.
i do however feel that all of this was nessisary in order for me to 'see' the dualistic manner of gender as a construct but i dont feel that to be central to me at the moment- more something to be aware of really.

at the moment i am on erasmus in utrecht - loving it by the way.... im thinking about making a small artists book- im really excited to see what a printing process can bring to my work. i have always been very interested in the idea of the book as a space... perhaps i can combine it with the fairy tale... in many ways my work is loping back to last years... im thinking about imagined space more- or rather the perception of space- a story can be a space... a dolls house is a very different space to its owner, especially as time goes by... i had a toy farm made from cardboard- it was really amazing... im interested in a sort of dialog. stories around objects- more personal then mediated. creating personal space is not necessisarily about instilation- it can be small... to me though i enjoy a air of fragility - like memories, scents... hidden chambers- things that fold back on themselves ... that take time to get to know-navagate... like people.

at the moment im looking at the strenght and preserverance of this fragility. as gaiman says ' As i write this now, it occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truely are. there were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how very strong they really were, tiny load-bearing marble halls; ...hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles able to pump for a lifetime seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. even dreams the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.'