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exploring Identity IN a CHANGING LANDSCAPE

Unsuitable for framing

ARTISTS STATEMENT

Unsuitable for Framing explores the impact that societal expectations have on women as they transition into modern-day motherhood.

The series considers how our sense of self can shift and change as we move between social landscapes and how we evolve in an attempt to find comfort and belonging in new spaces.

Reflecting on the adjustments required of women as they traverse between the vibrant and ambitious expectations of young womanhood to the nurturing and selfless expectations of motherhood, I consider how, whilst trying to outwardly present compliance with, and integration of, both these idealised stereotypes, both their shadow sides form. Creating a dark inner landscape that requires attention.

By upholding a romanticised view of motherhood, Society turns a blind eye to the struggles created by impossible to achieve ideals.

The symbolic use of house-plants serve as a metaphor for these societal expectations of motherhood. Nature existing in the domestic setting.

Matrescence is the term used to describe the physical, emotional, hormonal and social transition to becoming a mother.

These images tell one woman's story of the journey into matrescence.

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THE BEAUTY IN WHAT FOLLOWS

AS WE RELEASE THE CULTURE THAT BINDS US

MOTHERHOOD IN DECAY

ARTISTS STATEMENT

In the series Unsuitable for Framing (above), I used a houseplant as a metaphor for the societal expectations of motherhood.
Nature existing in the domestic setting.

During the creation of this series, the plant itself started to die. It felt symbolic.

I started to photograph the dying plant and in doing so I came to see a different kind of beauty in it.

I call this series Motherhood in Decay and it pairs with the Motherhood Vanitas series where I photographed the scene as it decayed over time.

Decaying plants and flowers start to form their own sub-genre in my work as they represent the beauty in what we must let go of as life cycles through it's phases as we grow and evolve.

For me these images also hold a connection to the societal standards of feminine beauty, particularly the cultural obsession with youth and how, if we look beyond the cultural narrative, there is a great deal of beauty to be found as we grow and age.