Looking at this exhibition, and reading about Messager I see a direct correlation with my own practice. Her surrealist manner in which she creates these sensual body parts, remind me of tenderness, temporality and a sense of the real. What I imagine as the real within the artist head, illustrating a justpostion between the body and the surreal world. The surreal in my drawings is one part of my work that i am working on and these images help to affirm what i am doing.
Taxidermy images Boarders 1971-1972 photographs of sparrows with knitted pullovers, again illustrate this sense of vulnerability, a life lost, yet through these mages a tenderness evokes.