The Egg Collector
This body of work is a set of six colour framed prints - three prints of hand-tinted magic lantern glass slides and three prints of a female.
Inspired by the work of French female philosopher Luce Irigaray, critically her terms mimesis and mimicry. The work aims to explore the concept of the female body mimicking that which it may or may not have experienced, juxtaposed with the three slide prints of birds’ nests, connecting historically to the predominantly male hobby of egg collecting.
As proposed by Irigaray, historically the female is always associated with the role of mother; whether a woman is a mother or not, the female identity is always defined by that role.
This body of work is a set of six colour framed prints - three prints of hand-tinted magic lantern glass slides and three prints of a female.
Inspired by the work of French female philosopher Luce Irigaray, critically her terms mimesis and mimicry. The work aims to explore the concept of the female body mimicking that which it may or may not have experienced, juxtaposed with the three slide prints of birds’ nests, connecting historically to the predominantly male hobby of egg collecting.
As proposed by Irigaray, historically the female is always associated with the role of mother; whether a woman is a mother or not, the female identity is always defined by that role.
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