Wirral Metropolitan College

Something funny happened yesterday when I was speaking to my mum on the phone, she was asking questions about my work and I was trying to explain my ideas to her. She became very offensive and argumentative she very clearly found this theme hard to talk about and most definitely was of the opinion that she had done something wrong because I wanted to work with this subject. I found myself justifying to her how having these restrictive and claustrophobic feelings about the family didn’t necessarily mean that I had ‘shit’ childhood. Very strange, I never expected to have to justify my work to her; it is not about her it is about how I see the world; she will obviously have provided me with some of her inherited behaviours but that has happened and not necessarily a bad thing! It will be interesting to see what she thinks when the installation is up!