Coming and Going
Coming and Going captures a type of mystery or 'magic that can be discovered in daily routines.
Repetitive journeys can easily disappear into a comatose lifestyle, where nothing was noted along the way. The seconds and thousands of steps required to make up the journey are, in a sense, ignored and even 'lost'. In fact each time we make those mundane journeys, we leave a visible or invisible trail behind. Like our carbon footprint. Apparently invisible, yet very impactful in the long run.
Days slip into years and our faces and bodies become lined with the maps of our lives.
The interactions we have with random strangers may change the course of our or their lives.
A gesture of kindness or the warmth of a smile, could well be the ray of hope that a random stranger receives or gives. HOW we live is important.

Modernity desperately tries to stop the evidence of days coming and going. We try to stop any evidence of the effects of LIFE on our physical appearance. Dark glasses hide a multitude of sins, so to speak.
In this artwork, the glasses refer to a type of mask, a hiding behind. A moment of reprieve from scrutiny.
What was interesting as the work developed the back of the work became as important as the front. The dark glasses became elements of focus instead of hidden. A raw, unexpected element of beauty emerges.
In contrast with face peels, fillers, lifts and tucks that erase evidence of the coming and going of time, this work exaggerates every stitch and flaw as the light hits the surface. The maps in the background contain recorded journeys and information from and to places.
The work has since been encapsulated between two sheets of glass, adding even more creases. As she rotates her beauty increases with every nuance of light.
A combination of maps etched in various ways, stitching with machine and by hand portray a plethora of emotions as if a stop motion animation was used.