If these are your words, not mine, is this your body too?
Who owns feelings? Are they part of us, the experiencing beings, or are they separate, nameable entities? Are your words and names and labels the same as the things they represent? Or are they, at best, translation; at worst, contortions and manipulations?
This project grew while I was volunteering on acute psychiatric wards, talking to patients who had been restrained under the mental health act. An attempt to process both my own mental health experiences as well as what I was hearing or seeing on wards, the images conjure the dissociative and the uncanny.
It is an existential study, blurring the distinction between perceiving and feeling, drawing on the significance of our relation to objects as revealing the world to us.