Collection: OTHERNESS

Otherness is as in progress series exploring themes of identity, power, perception, acceptance and belonging. Following on from the previous investigative series I am Patchwork - here the artist investigates what it means to be Other and Otherness- whilst undertaking her own Hero’s Journey. 

Through the Otherness series the artist is currently investigating the following questions: 

• Does ‘fitting in’ lead to belonging? And can we still belong, even if we don’t fit in? 
• How do other people perspectives of ourselves impact our daily lives and our civic and legal rights? And should that perception have so much power that it actually impacts another? 
• What value does a human life have? And how is that worth measured and calculated? 
• How can human contribution be measured? And who or what has the power to make that valuation? 
• How much power should one human being ever be able to exercise upon another? And what limits do we impose as a society over that ‘power over’?  
• Is the idea of a ‘tribe’ conducive or destructive to society as a whole? And does it bring us closer together or further apart?
• Is it better to speak or to die?