Walking with the unknown series dress 2

During Covid two major bodies of work were seen only in a reduced viewing mode online and never seen in their true context and in real life. My work benefits by the human eye contact to its surface and is diminished in a digital media world. This is one such work from my series ‘Walking with the Unknown” which responded to women in lockdown possibly locked down with their domestic violence perpetrators. As an artist working in the medium of photography the primary references that underpin my practice are the hand-made and the camera obscura. This work was done while in first lockdown. Online cheap dresses represent the body of a victim of domestic violence, women and children who could not escape their violators during restrictions. This work explores that theme through experimental, hand-made camera-less images. I live with the dichotomy of finding beauty in the processes while dealing with such an ugly topic. Nothing seems to have changed since I first started this project, however as women and women artists we must still march forward. “I am small. I am insignificant but the force that flows through me is so powerful that I must go forward”. Attributed to Hilma af Klint Ref: from Instagram post Women_in_art