When are we?

For a long time my work focused on exploring the subject of identity. This was in part due to the fact that I watched someone I love gradually slip away before my eyes due to a form of Alzheimer's disease.Through this experience I became interested in questions about what makes us, "us".

It became clear to me that who we are is more than just our appearance. Our identity, the sense of who we are which makes us recognisable and different from anyone else, is a vast collection of small - often trivial - indicators. Each indicator acts like a mark on the paper building up a composite picture of oneself that is always in flux. No single mark contains the full story of our identity. Instead, our identity is a collection of indicators that coalesce to create an in-the-moment version of ourselves. Although our identity is a phenomenon of approximation that evades precise description, we are skilled at knowing when a person is really "themselves" or not.

Identity 1

38 x 19 cm

etching

Identity 2

57 x 38 cm
pen on paper

Identity 3

57 x 38 cm
pencil on paper

Identity 4

57 x 38 cm
pen on paper

Identity 5

57 x 38 cm
pencil on paper

Identity 6
35 x 13 cm
pen on paper



Identity 7
57 x 38 cm
pencil and conté crayon on paper




Portrait

57 x 38 cm

graphite on paper