Inside Out - Umbilical Cord Sculpture

This work explores in a surreal manner the perceptions of space and translates the process of viewing through the examinations of how our body's perceptions influence what is perceived by our mind. In the context of exploring my cultural adjustments to new spaces and environments through the process of birth and rebirth, I render my fragile and fertile body by taking it inside out making my viewers move into it and outwards translating an endoscopic journeys through the interior landscape of the my own body. Drawing the viewers’ attention to the real and the estranged spaces with a sense of threat, pleasure and a surreal sense of humor, which draw the viewer between the exposing and the concealing of ones being. As if oscillating in a push and pull state. The inside (utopian) and the outside (real) space, or wise versa overlap and embody a tension between which an exposed centre is established. This installation is made in foam, vinyl and wood.