For me, making art is the way I understand the world we’re living in and my place in it. The value of art to all of us, in the making or the appreciation of it, is incalculable. The Creative Process celebrates this. I’m particularly interested in the meeting point of art and science, fiction and truth; when art sits at these intersections I believe it can reveal new truths to us, take us to places we could not have otherwise gone. For this reason The interdisciplinary approach taken by The Creative Process is so important.
What was the inspiration for your creative work?
My current ongoing project, The 544, is a memorial to 544 psychiatric patients murdered by the Nazis in 1941 in Latvia. My grandmother was working at the hospital from where the patients were taken.
The figurative images are all cyanotypes.
The project is primarily intended as a memorial. Not knowing anything about the the identities of the dead, I have tried to imagine each one as a unique, precious being, and give each back a little of the character stripped from them when they were murdered and reduced by history to a number on a list of nameless victims.
