Born Across Grey Water

I position my artistic inquiry at the edge of chaos. It is here that the dynamic space of possibilities opens up, from which a new worldview might be born. I am drawing from a sense of process; transgression of borders creates new ways of perceiving. The space between the borders, the liminal space, is constantly informed by transgressions of human thought processes and gestures toward new ways of seeing. Human existence is increasingly liminal. Mechanistic viewing caused by specialization in all spheres of human activity, including our language, has lead to an overall sense of fragmentation, automatic functioning of our thought, and division through of fields of experience. The modern “Machine” has cauterized our attachments to the natural world and brought us to proximity with major ecological shift. As an immigrant and mother, no stranger to liminal space, I have searched for a sense of connection to Canadian cultural and natural environment through the use of photographic and video media. My need to connect initiated the exploration of landscape and motherhood embodiment and, eventually, the scrutiny of grey water’s connective character. My visual essay invites the reader to consider several issues for which I have used the metaphor of grey water. Grey water, just like liminal space or connectives space, holds together and separates at the same time. In a constant state of transition, it dissolves borders, mutates through time and spaces, enfolding shapes and ideas, and unfolding them back into the flow. It gestures toward wholeness and connectivity. Acceptance and sensitivity to ever changing differences and similarities emerging through the murky character of grey water can help us create a new frame of mind in which there is a common consciousness.