Underpinned by feminist narratives, this project explores themes of identity, memory, agency, and the inherent expression of female as body.

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Originating from an autobiographical position, these concepts are interrogated through the mother/ daughter relationship and remembered childhood gestures 

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Forming a sense of self; our personal; experience shapes our expressions and the performance of our present choices, forcing us to consider the cyclical language within these recalled motions and  the perceives obligations of our surroundings.

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How do these mannerisms, these historical interpretations or political notions of the naked body, of the female form and the role of women; truly separate us as an individual? Where does one begin and the other end?

The included sound-scape provides a background of morning walks, recorded journal entries and long conversations echoing sentiments of my own mothers story.

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Accompanying this, a sensory paper; handmade from our shared bodily remnants. Collected over a six month period, our hair, our skin are infused with a mothers early perfume, coming together to memorialise these concepts of self.

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Through the uncomfortable line of familiarity and unspoken distance  between mother and daughter, this project hopes to antagonise the concept of our own beginning, of co-existing synonymity and nuance; finally asking, can we every truly take claim of our own identity?