I have been working on a group of figures from newspaper and masking tape. The process is a simple but effective one: I crumple up newspaper, press it into shape, wind tape around it and thus slowly build up and form bodies. The newsprint remains visible through the gaps and at times shines through the masking tape. I have chosen these unassuming and non-precious materials as I find they lend themselves in interesting ways to making explorations about physicality, vulnerability, (sexual) identity. My focus is on the female body. I am interested in posture and movement, not just for themselves but as a way to manifest emotional states. Also ambiguous states of mind and body: the figures give a sense of inner strength as well as vulnerability, of pain as well as pleasure. They are beautiful to look at and at the same time disturbing, precise and delicate shapes combine with unrefined ones. It is small and intimate work, subtle, fragile and transient.
