Art & Identity

I feel that in my art I am constantly addressing the issue of identity. For an assignment last semester, I created a puppet that represented what a patient of Kirkbride would have been like when it was a hospital. I made it move around to a sound track of noises, which were of my own voice. I cried, I screamed, I mumbled and eventually I became crazy.

For this piece I was trying to portray a loss of identity; the patent that had differing ideas to the rest of the world at the time and had to be put away and shut up. At the start they fought, and eventually gave up who they were and became empty and void of all identity.