Drapes

Drapes can be seen as the social and psychological filters we use to navigate our interactions with the world. Yet always, the drapes remain a symbolic boundary, a threshold between the inner and the outer, the self and the other.

In the context of a patriarchal society, they take on an added layer of significance, reflecting the complexities of how women are framed and confined by societal norms and expectations, much like the intricate folds and layers that conceal and reveal the female form.

In this way, drapes become a poetic metaphor for the complex interplay of intimacy and distance, vulnerability and protection, that defines our social and psychological lives. They remind us that we are always negotiating the delicate dance between exposure and concealment, between the desire to connect and the fear of being seen.

80x100cm Oil on Canvas mounted on Green 100x100cm Green Canvas - 2019

100x100cm Oil on Canvas 2023