MASKS

The masks of my face were made from a plaster mould and turned into a slip cast mould. I then made a small production line of my face and painted each surface in a uniform Chinese opera mask design. The work explored the loss of individual identity in a society so heavily dominated by global identity. (2000)

FROM THE DEPARTMENT 

OF SOCIAL CUSTOMS

Pictured right are three 'Cheong Sam' (traditional Chinese dresses) which I made life size using earthware ceramics in 1997. The dresses being made in an unwearable material came to represent my own feelings of dislocation towards my upbringing in Australia at this particular time. 

I D E N T I P A R T S

Identiparts was an installation work created in 1998. The work consisted of one hundred packaged facial features (predominantly mouths, noses and eyelids) and packaged as cosmetics and labelled according to race. The work commented on the how easily our physical identities are able to be altered even to the point where one can change racial identity. 

The original work was developed as an object based installation, but with further experimentation and documentation, site and context began to feature more prominantly as a part of the work. This particular example shows the objects photographed as a cosmetic counter promotional poster.