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 Margaret Heathwood, current MCA Student from the School of Art & Design
30 June - 22 July
Artist Statement:
The images in this exhibition describe a process of personal rupture and reparation.
The swifts are a metaphor for movement in terms of migration and also describe personal evolution. They signify hope and a sense of release from emotional trauma. The flock consists of many parts moving in one mass. They protect each other by being fragments of one moving body leaving and returning.
The torn fragments and birds are floating and flying in front of a shadow. The shadow gives substance to the shapes creating the illusion that they hover above the picture plane.
The spaces between the shapes are also important because they represent an expansion and contraction that accommodates change and movement.
This work is a subjective analysis of survival and serves as an analogy for the process of emotional rupture and repair involved in self-awareness.
Image: Margaret Heathwood Word Birds 2005
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