FORTALEZA, FORTITUDE, FORTRESS | 2011

In the writings and drawings that make up this work I have attempted to transcribe the surprise brought about by my mother’s remark regarding her own aging process and her sense that she ‘no longer felt [herself] to be the fortress she had always believed she was’.

• old sheets of paper, white China ink, sewing pin 
• 297 x 420 cm 
• EXHIBITIONS: 'Migalhas da infância’, Marsden Woo Gallery, Londres, Inglaterra 

Photo: Philip Sayer