Eclectic_Dreaming

The designs are based on artwork that is based on elements of the psyche. working within the context of desire and ideas Freudian, in the context of anxiety or loss and control, the work takes the form of fetish. Her influences are writers such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Emile Zola and musicians like The Cooper Temple Clause, Nina Simone and Nick Cave. Their work has its basis in the psychological aspects of human existence, and the emotions that drive us. She also finds inspiration in the ideas involved in the Vanitas genre and the work of Hieronymus Bosch. Materials are very important to her. Both Tapies and Dubuffet used materials that were to hand and manipulated surfaces by scratching into paint, cutting and such. Tapies said, “No material is mean”. Preferring where possible to use the throwaway object, Like Louise bourgeois and Annette Messager She makes work that sometimes reflects feminine craft traditions like knitting and sewing. Her work is processed based using ritualised methods to articulate ideas involving decay, renewal, the psychological, repetition and change.