Learning to take up space Photography Enacting the practice of carving

Enacting the practice of carving a heart into a tree trunk

laser-cut from metal and UV-printed with layered diagrams

the image is digitally cut into overlapping stripes and painted as repetitive vertical pulses

"Poimandre" is a deity in this text who is described as an all seeing mind

I formed the perfume bottle into an olfactory bulb

Learning to take up space Photography Enacting the practice of carvingLearning to take up space takes my interest in fibre arts, as a commentary on gendered associations and the politics of textiles, and places the material as a substitute for flesh. Working alongside the materials, and looking at the world through a feminist lens, I am questioning the politics of space who gets to take up space and why certain groups are expected to not to. This piece rejects our eurocentric, patriarchal society, encouraging positive