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A panel of birds and images were displayed below the birds
This image gives one more of a sense of the feeling of being among a 6m cloud of paper birds
My work
interrogates the point at which the individual intercepts a larger community
within an urban context. My journey of
locating 'self' is symbolised by the transition of the paper bird within
various spaces. The anonymous nature of
the individual within the masses is represented by an installation of a cloud
of identically folded paper birds in Flock
of Dreams (2011). I began creating this installation by asking
a group of learners at Durban Girls High School to record their dreams on the
paper birds, as part of a process of
tracing human presence through artistic interventions. The cloud reflects how the mapping of
personalised hopes distinguishes the individual from the masses in establishing
a unique life path.
Flock
of Dreams also reveals the power of individuals as part of a group; the
individual's influence on her surroundings is reinforced through her
integration into a broader collective.
I am
ambivalent about the power I carry as an individual, as my work documents both
the vulnerability and success of an individual diaspora. Encroachment (2011) explores how displacement and migration is not just
a physical movement, but also an emotional transition.
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