I have been examining the love of self, the idea of romantic love and our love of the Earth, making a connection between the exploitation of the Earth and victims of abuse. I have been using the British children’s sweets ‘Love Hearts’ first designed in the 1950s, as my muse, a game of sweets in which the players are randomly dealt a loving one liner. I have been drawing up, on the one side, love messages and on the other, describing the actions of abusers and feelings suffered by many victims as a result, I am creating a bittersweet narrative. In these works, I lay the one liners side by side, giving the observer a collection of messages, left to tell their own tale and open to personal interpretation.
Work in progress will be on show at Lambeth Archives with South London Women Artists network for International Womens’ month. My work will be on display as part of a group show. In ‘Heal me, don’t kill me’ I remember my sister for International Women’s Day and make a plea for the Earth.