I progressed from an earlier version of this piece. I cut it down after rubbing out the pencil marks and mounted it on black paper, leaving a downward slant along the bottom.

I wrote ‘you are here this is happening’ with my left hand. This allowed me to let go. This act felt natural, I kept focusing on how hard it must of been for 5 year old me as I first grabbed a pencil and began to write with my right hand. I have no memories of learning to write, but using my left hand for this piece was the closest I’ll get.

Because it was my left hand instead of right, I began to think about the 2 sides of my personality. One side tells the truth and doesn’t back down from difficult situations. The other takes a different approach and deceives me, it tells me things it can’t possibly know, things that can’t be true. This side hides things, feelings and emotions and truths.

I was thinking about this as I tried not to focus too hard writing with my left hand.

My left hand wrote the phrase with no fear, with no experience, it had never written this phrase before.

I think being honest with yourself is very hard.

This projects theme began with the intention of visualising how protection is the ultimate outcome of lying to the people you love.

Can I be one of these 'people’?

Because, I AM one of these people..