Inexplicit
2020, 209 x 34cm, cartridge paper, polythene tape, charcoal, graphite, accumulated dust
Possibilities of intimate moments and experiences partially removed through tearing, erasing, layering and overexposing
Baring witness to just the periphery of another’s potential privacy, with an uncertainty as to whether the carefully assembled fragments are innocently personal or predatory.
When we do not understand what we are seeing the mind will embellish to assist the confusion, filling in the gaps to ease our insecurities for ignorance.
When clear-cut content is almost completely removed apart from a tease or a trace, it is made explicit; not by the artist, nor the images, but by the viewer.
We are faced with embodying the mindset of a predator in order to satisfy our need to understand, and we are then confronted by the voyeuristic parts of ourselves.
