As I work on the series, the images are strange yet at the same time familiar…ordinary things are juxtaposed and transformed into the extraordinary.
The hand-drawn elements are a vital means of expression…simple and direct; the grids evoke a sense of time through the nature of their making…time is where process meets ideas.
I am considering mounting the work in boxes, which, if joined together on the gallery wall, would form another grid.
My inspiration comes from the work of Susan Hefuna, who uses the metaphor of the Mashrabiya which, traditionally, protected the inside world; filtering light and allowing you to observe without being seen.
