29/05/2026
I won’t lie, I’ve been immensely challenged by social media this week, and have mostly resorted to sitting in the sun (for bursts of 5 minutes at a time - WHEW!! 🌞 🥵) and I even went to my fallback dissociation practice of reading Enid Blyton 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
(Who else used escapism as a child to try and make worlds which made more sense to their neurodivergent, highly sensitive needs?)
But the truth is, I’m finally back in the studio after a litany of events and health issues which have kept me away. And it feels both GREAT and kind of terrifying.
This canvas - which in total will be approximately 13 metres long, is the basis of my installation for RECLAIM: Invisible Bodies. At the core of the installation will be the embodied voices of 6 disabled / neurodivergent individuals all reclaiming & loudly expressing their POWER.
Because I do believe we have to reclaim our future - *now*. I refuse to be a victim of history. Disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent individuals all have IMMENSE value to add to this world, and the current rhetoric is that we are no more than a drain on society.
YOU ARE VALUABLE. And this installation is an alchemy of our embodied pain into a sensory world which holds, connects, nourishes and expands our collective sense of that value.
Over the coming months I will be bringing more BTS snippets of the project, as well as community vox-pops and interactions around the intense, era-defining themes included in the artwork.
To support this work, please go to my crowdfunder above 💖🙏⬆️.