Silhouettes

The Silhouettes explore bodies, spaces, containment and community. They are abstracted silhouettes of women containing wombs, hearts, breasts and birth canals. They also resemble interconnected spaces: courtyards, rooms, tombs. The pieces reference the Hagar Qim and Mnajdra Temples in Malta, one of the most ancient religious sites on earth (c.3600 BC), built by primitive people who venerated Mother Goddesses. I am inspired by Ana Mendieta, who travelled to Malta in 1984 and said: “Being inside the prehistoric temples is like being inside a womb. They really are about nurturing and are very powerful in their human scale”.