‘I see myself seeing myself.....consciousness in its relation to representation......the subject apprehends himself as thought.’ Jacques Lacan
‘Here I Am’ questions identity. The outer ear impressions used in this piece are a positive physical identification of identity, as the spiral growth is unique to each individual. But the empty blurred reflective space represents loss and dislocation. A space for the viewer to question his or her own image. The positive body-form floats in an undefined space of uncertainty.
Carol Shields writes in “Unless” ‘Identity is the dominant mystery of our lives, the numinous matter of self, that can’t help but surrender to its own ironic destiny: that the self can never be known.’
Silicone ear moulds, aluminium sheets, steel.
