When discussing the West African myth of Legba in his book Trickster Makes this World, Lewis Hyde writes:
“He separates earth and sky but then induces rain to fall so that the two are connected even as they are disconnected. He causes the high god to retreat from this world, but then becomes the agent of divination so that there is some commerce across the divide … So there is a category of mythic narrative, a category of art, that occupies the field between polarities and by that articulates them, simultaneously marking and bridging their differences.”
My work is primarily concerned with investigating polarity. Employing themes such as simultaneity, transformation, and perception, I examine the ways in which we construct boundaries and navigate between them. When a border is created, it both names the separated parts, as well exposes the ambiguity and points of intersection between the newly created poles.