Interior spaces.

Finding the dark humour inside the nightmare of infertility is a challenge. Still life, plays with the classic genre of the still life, where objects have a euphemistic meaning beneath their ordinary exterior. A still life exhibits objects as symbols about the artist, the patron, politics, and the society in which it was made. Hormone therapy medication, as objects of their time in the form of banal pill bottles and boxes, of estradiol, letrozole and DHEA for fertility treatment, speak to our contemporary anxiety around assisted reproduction. Intended as symbols of hope these objects often fall short of their promise.

Life in technicolour, is the calm after the storm. Presented in a swatch of bright woodblocks overlayed, this work is a snapshot of the passing of the storm, and acceptance of the nature of things, the period that follows upheaval, and the leaning into a new normal.