Life on Mars - Life on Mars shows Isabel in familiar environments that are at the same time external and alien. Standing in the flawed waters, forests and woodlands that make up the English countryside around her home in Bath, she experiences the physical and emotional release that comes from being in environments that though isolated and raw, are flawed and visibly marked with the signs of human intervention. She stands alone, yet at the same time is part of a primal social identity that emerges from the landscapes of which she, and all of us, are still part.
Childhood is an intensely social time, but it is also lonely, a period when we must make the most difficult decisions of our lives, decisions that are apparent in the paths, trails and signs that lie scattered across these flawed English vistas. Isabel is conscious and unconscious, here but not here, a real presence that exists in the imaginary landscapes that are Life on Mars.

My work is represented by Artspace Witzenhausen, Amsterdam.