Floating but Connected (2014)

Artist's Statement

In recent years I have been using hair as a metaphor for myself in my life in some of my works.

I like many other women and also some men attach importance to my hair.  It is for me one aspect of my self expression and creativity.  I have an emotional and of course physical connection to it. My hair also contains my DNA.

In this work I have used my hair (fibre) my body and my clothes (textile) to form a unit of expression, of design.  I also am surrounded by the hair of other people, black and white with whom I interact on a daily basis in South Africa.