Proxemics

Proxemics is part of an ongoing investigation into how we define and redefine our relationship to self, space, and place. The work is both a physical object – a circular prop made from used cloth, measuring four metres in diameter – and a series of photographs documenting the performance of the prop as it interacts with the landscapes of space, place and human form.

When we have too much personal space engulfing us, we feel isolated. But when personal space is cast aside, as it was during the confinement of lockdowns, we feel the lack of it. Proxemics toys with ideas around the personal and the protective, and the tension between that which is within our control and that which is uncontrollable, elusive and unreliable.