My residency at The Muse Gallery

Travelling into the gallery on the train the other day I was listening to an interview on the radio regarding mothers and daughters and their comparative fashion choices. Though I might have expected to be told that daughters commonly rebel against the particular style adopted by their mothers this programme seemed to conclude that mothers have a large amount of ongoing influence, even if it manifests subconsciously. It seemed to add weight to my thinking regarding the ways in which we “wear” our influences more broadly. That is, the ways in which all of the impressions we gain every day pattern/influence/colour us, almost as if they were drawn/scrawled all over us.