An authentic voice

This is my story.

Everything I do and put together whether in my home or my art I want to be a true reflection of the real me. When life is short and so precious this is really important. So why is it so difficult, sometimes to know if you’re following along somebody else’s path?

I guess for me it’s a matter of staying in the process of intuitive making, keeping in tune with all my senses to know what to do next and taking a phenomenological approach. Tacit knowledge is very powerful but it takes effort to trust my fingers.

“Touch is the unconsciousness of vision”

Juhani Pallasmaa

Pallasmaa in The Thinking Hand talks about the body holding memory and the touching hand unconsciously works to realise this embodied, lived experience. Each of us experience the world in a unique and wonderful way, therefore the way we create will be uniquely personal. Trust the process because that is where we will find ourselves in the art we make. Allow the process to reveal itself … make it visible to the audience, this is your voice.