Interiors

Simone de Beauvoir wrote in The Second Sex that “the home becomes the centre of the world and even its only reality; ‘a kind of counter-universe or universe in opposition’ (Bachelard); refuge, retreat, grotto, womb, it gives shelter from outside dangers; it is this confused outer world that becomes unreal.”

This series emerged as I returned home after fifteen years away. Finding a home became a quiet urgency. The original images—assembled from torn collage fragments—evolved into gestural self-portraits, reverse-painted on acrylic panel. These layered interiors distort time and space, offering glimpses of everyday objects while holding space for memory, vulnerability, and the complexities of domestic life.