Seeing Colours Differently
As I found myself in my late 30s, I felt the urge to walk the terrain I once trod as a child to try and come to terms with my apparent failure to meet the expectations put upon me by my younger self and the societal constructs to which I’m supposed to adhere.
To reconcile the disparity between these factors and the reality of the life I grew up to lead, I hid in the places I inhabited in my youth so as to search, in peace, for some sort of resolution that would help me validate the life I have now and the choices I have made.
The words that accompany the piece are as follows:
The adult retracing the desire lines of the child to discover the genesis of the adult who still lives under the gaze of the child who’s yet to know the type of adult she will be who’s always moving forward but forever looking backwards to the child she was and the disparity between the adult she became who walks endlessly back and forth between child and adult not even sure it leads anywhere except to here that is finally an acceptance of a child and an adult forever intertwined in a life destined to walk this forwards moving backwards walk.
Exhibited as part of Projects 18 @ Stills Gallery in 2018
