Insomnia is a 4-Letter Word

Being a self-portrait, Insomnia is a 4-Letter Word represents the female (artist) body in an internal struggle, drifting, dislocated, dismembered, offering itself to the gaze of an audience of peers.
Crisscrossing dualities are embodied within the mirrored diptych: vertically through the asymmetrical positions of the arms; horizontally within the twisted body itself, neither looking forwards nor backwards; and through the dislocation of the head and the heart (the passion symbolized through the tattoo of the externalized heart organ).
It is a stuttering piece, vulnerable yet defiant. It personifies the waves created by the clash of the conscious and the unconscious, reason and instinct, that are the pinball identities of the self as woman, as the artist, as social being.

Exhibited at the Running Horse gallery, as part of collective show Counting Thoughts, Apr 10.