Joni Smith

My practice is concerned with paper manipulation, mapping and the idea of parallel Universes. The idea of worlds ungoverned by the laws of nature and societal issues we endure is a thread that runs through my work. I play with these ideas, taking everyday objects and subverting their original intensions. The map for example is our guidebook to the physical geography of this world, without which we would be literally lost. By manipulating the map, I recompose a reality that we have made for ourselves. I invite the viewer to challenge the world that they are presented with, to imagine what lies beneath and beyond. Norwich