"Waiting" 76 x 183cm Oil and Acrylic on canvas
Suppressing
Muffling
Layering
Scrapping
Obliteration
Concealing
‘When I draw it means that something bothers me, but I don’t know what it is. So it is the treatment of anxiety’
Louise Bourgeois
My paintings revealed another layer of anxiety and conflict, which co-existed with the traumas of displacement. This is when I realised I was not voicing or acknowledging that I was haunted by the absence of my child. The consequence of this recognition took me beyond art, into a completely new realm - the role of questioning motherhood.
Cy Tombly