Nocturnal Flux: Discovering Dimensions of Night.
This project explores my changed way of looking and feeling at night through partially deconstructed, shifting, painted representations. My work explores my fascination with the experience of night spaces and the ranging aesthetic and psycho-social factors that are specific to this time. I explore paintings ability to simulate the felt, sensorial experiences and aesthetics unique to my nighttime encounters. Communities often condition women to avoid travelling alone after dark as it is seen as dangerous. However, for many women, it is an unavoidable part of life. As a woman, my travels after dark are shaped by this conditioning; I experience soothing moments of solitude and wonder along with the contradictory sensation of anxiety. These works serve as attempts to convey the murky, shifting, and often, coexisting sensations evoked in this time of transition. My research reworks photographic documentation of my nighttime encounters using paint to explore the felt and seen, in doing so it presents the night as a time of contradiction and duality between stillness, rest, or renewal, and the inherent fear of the unknown, restless, or unfamiliar. Night is vibrant and vital and my practice seeks to convey the complexities of it’s environments and my relationship with them as a woman.
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