What lies beneath?
What lies in the depth of your tears? 2015
Watercolour paper, tissue paper, burning tool
Using Matthew Darbyshire's Blades House and its self conscious fictional character setting, this artwork asks questions about the human condition, the difficulties we go through existing in the world. Do we miscommunicate through an external display, camouflaging what lies beneath our skin? Does our self-consciousness need to project ourselves through material possessions disguise our true emotions, vulnerability and feelings of fragility and weakness? It is this idea that emotions are not tangible unless displayed by an overly physical symptom such as crying tears that I have explored. Each human tear forms a unique pattern when examined under a microscope, dependent on the emotion expressed by the person producing them.
I translated these fragile patterns of emotion through experimenting with delicate paper surfaces using burning, scorching, charring techniques and processes. The reaction of the papers to heat created a unique alchemy, transforming the paper into living tactile surfaces, blistering with the stains and traces of human contact.
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