Ideal Ego

Ideal Ego explores identity, memory and the relationship between personal experience and the traces left by others. The project developed through drawing and intervention in second-hand books, treating the books not simply as surfaces but as objects that already carry histories of use, ownership and reading.

 

Marks, texts and images left by previous owners remain visible alongside my own drawings, memories and visual references. Through addition, interruption and layering, these different traces occupy the same pages, allowing past and present, found material and personal experience to overlap. The project considers identity as something formed through these accumulated encounters rather than as a fixed or isolated self.

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Selected exhibitions and outcomes
Platform for Emerging Arts #16, Leyden Gallery, London, November 2017
Selected works published in The Other Side of Hope: Journeys in Refugee and Immigrant Literature, Autumn 2024 issue
Invited speaker at the launch of The Other Side of Hope: Journeys in Refugee and Immigrant Literature, National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London, 6 November 2024

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