4 WHEN U SPIN a mixed-media installation exploring the experience of spinning thoughts. In this work, 3D printed flower-like sculptures rotate continuously, casting dynamic shadows across walls covered in bright, busy collages of urban imagery and colour. At times in the cycle the shadows align or cross one another, representing those transformative moments when mental spinning stops and clarity returns. When the shadows aren’t overlapping, the shadows cast are uncontrolled and sprawl over the wall, representing the running nature of worrisome thought.
The spinning motion in 4 WHEN U SPIN embodies the relentless cycle of thoughts that can overwhelm us, all the ‘what if’s’ that feel so pressing and real when we are heightened. I am used to the spinning now; I have learnt to sit with the spin until it stops, and I almost find comfort in the way my mind can be fully consumed. The work invites viewers to confront their own spinning and welcome them to let it in or make it stop.
I am a mixed-media artist creating on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation in Melbourne, Australia. I work with screenprinting, light, digital printing and metalwork. I find shadows compelling because they expose what our forms hide and reveal. I create contemplative objects that function as tangible metaphors for internal states.