Every time I write a statement, I aim to organise the chaos that is my practice into coherence. I will not try to do this anymore.
I was recently made aware of the term – 'masking' – where neurodiverse individuals with autism or ADHD quite literally 'mask' their symptoms and experiences by keeping up a pretense of "normalcy" and order. I realized that I have done this all my life, quite involuntarily. As someone who has been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) relatively recently, I am still trying to understand and accept my "limitations", often through my practice. The core philosophical enquiries of my practice remain the same.
They derive from a need to understand my place – and by extension, the place of other individuals with different kinds of disprivilege – within socio-economic systems that do not work in our favour. This need to map inequality and discrimination is most evident in the major projects I have been pursuing in this unit – 'Maze' and 'The Sentient Onions.'
However, since my energy and attention constantly ricochets between an ever-growing number of interests, there are parts of my practice that defies a coherent explanation. These images and illustrations are documented on my home page.
Here onwards, in an attempt to be more accepting of myself, I will not try to hide the things that don't fit.