Gallery 5 - Fluid

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Fluid

I have lost the original statement that I wrote at the time, but this collection of small series was the last phase in my contemplations about physical identity. The Old Flesh had dealt with hidden knowledge and Blemish looked at notions of beauty. The works in Fluid formed a whimsical discourse on gender.

The underlying conceit that unites them all is that we have explored all the permutations that two genders can offer so I am going to invent a few extra ones. This whimsy allowed me to look at the strangeness of the other - that curiosity that begins in the "you show me yours and I'll show you mine" of childhood.

Having decided this the next question was where should I put these new genders? What context would they be seen in? I chose the sea, "that amniotic other place" as I described it at the time. The sea, the demesne of the mermaid (that genitally ambiguous creature), offered a place of fluid possibility with associations of evolution and the unconscious.