AND SO THE CYCLE CONTINUES explores the conversation between influence and identity. Experiencing life through memories and cultivating a persona based on superficial notions of nostalgia, identity can be defined in the 21st century as a reflection of the enmeshing of personality with media and aesthetics, a pattern of behaviours and daily rites, repeating in an endless cycle. The title of the work itself is a reference to Jean Baudrillard’s Simulations, of which the underpinning theme of the work draws upon. I aim to replicate the intimacy of the spaces in which these circadian rituals occur, whilst highlighting the artificiality of these constructed displays of individuality, in an attempt to depict the dichotomies of identity: organic and fabricated.
I am a multi-disciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, operating on Wurundjeri and Boon wurrung land. Currently, I am completing my studies for a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT University, majoring in sculpture. My practice encompasses sculpture, installation, video, performance, poetry and publishing. I often produce work that comments on the nature of modern identity in the context of queerness and sexuality through my own personal lens. The subject of my practice is primarily based on my distinctive lived experience, whilst relying on audience interaction and intimate spaces to curate a sense of communion and shared experience.
