Masters Project Portfolio. Installation Images.
Hanging canvases combine paint with fabric and joss paper, embellished with recycled silk from Nepal, beads, gold fringing and tassels. My Taoist inspired clouds have pearls of wisdom raining down from the skies.
These flow and connect with the mirror pools below.
A room with blackout curtains that covered all of the walls were used to great effect, leaving a slight gap at the entrance for viewers to enter. Two chimes were sewn on each curtain at a height that would sound the viewers entrance into my immersive dream scene adding to complete submersion.
Detail of a mirror pond with hybrid lilies that are a combination of typical English fabric with Joss paper. Dried and painted Lotus leaves are arranged around these mirror ponds as an expression of impermanence.
They are my contemporary twist on Monet’s Waterlily paintings.
Gold gilding flakes are an expression of light dancing on the water.
The lily rises every morning emerging from murky waters and symbolise rebirth in spirituality.
“Sewing is an act of emotional repair” Louise Bourgeois.
Installation process
Installation process
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Preparatory Work
“The valley spirit never dies. It is named the Mysterious Female.
And the doorway of the Mysterious Female,
Is the base from which heaven and earth sprang.
It is there within us all the while;
Draw from it as you will,
It never runs dry.”
Yin Force.
“The Mysterious Female” 2025
Dried Lotus leaf and acrylic.
The Mysterious Female is a Taoist concept. The great void, unfathomable, unknowable, yet she flows through all of us. It is Yin.
I used a dried lotus leaf to paint on as a reference to and to symbolise the Buddhist concept of impermanence. The scene depicted is the valley spirit inspired by the poem next to my fan above.
This is an example of how I combine Buddhist and Taoist concepts.