What Made Me

2018

Video Installation, Performance

4 Minutes 25 Seconds, Dimension Varies (series)

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A Continuation from the Skin Series. What Made Me' is a series which explores the influence that the environment has on one's social identity, explores body identity as well as the idea of the mental and physical being. To preserve one's essence, the aim of creating a landscape resembling an altar; which would hold many vessels that made us. The aim was to allow audiences to remember and accept what had given them their identity, what made them. The work is reflective upon the individual’s mind and what relates to them most. Insecurity and imperfection is often felt, but experiences and events shapes us individuality, making us different from one another. The individual being ‘worshipped’ in a sense that the daily lives and environment of one is being gifted to the self, the altar, that an external body engulfs one. The individual themselves are vessels who worship themselves with also vessels of experiences, materials, social lives and many other factors shaping the mental and physical self. In exploration, the idea of casting objects is aimed at transforming negative space into a positive objects, to make use of the pseudo body to coat vessels, bodies of daily life that we feed ourselves, to fulfill our desires.