Concept
A looming monolith takes anxious avoidance and imposes it onto the viewer, evoking the personal nature of solitude, and the resulting desire to turn solitude into isolation. A series of images communicate a guarded melancholy, and wander about the liminal sights of absence from society. Notions of comfort and privacy morph into a self-conscious indulgence, emphasising the compulsive side of these experiences through motifs of armour and exposure. Through this exposure, the comfort zone becomes center stage; its edges become emphasised and uncomfortably hard to ignore. The piece seeks to exemplify how avoidant and detached habits turn the peace of home into a fortress, and any signs of the outside world into invading forces.
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