Dancing-with
“Dancing-with” first appeared in my work in 2016, I described my process as doing, and a dance with and in material to describe the relationship between materials and people. I combined doing and dance-with, dancing-with describes action that has evolved throughout my work for the last 10 years.
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My methodology embraces originality not as something possessed only by a select few, but as something present in every person. The way each individual moves through the world is unique. The elitism of the educational system suggests that only certain people possess such a quality. My methodology challenges this notion and proposes that originality exists within everyone; however, we require stillness and empathy in order to recognise it rather than subsume it in a colonial way.
