Self-Portrait with Tundra’s Fur | 2024

Self-Portrait with Tundra’s Fur is a video exploring the intricate and volatile connections between our sense of identity, memory and the fragility and unpredictability of life. For this piece, I combine still images selected from two distinct bodies of work produced over the past 15 years. The Body Ineffable which features large self-portraits created from MRI scans and Tundra’s fur a multidisciplinary project about love, loss and grief using and working extensively with the hair collected from my beloved dog Tundra (2003-2019). On a very personal level the work is an exploration of interconnections between the medical images of myself and the fur that is the last vestige of my furry friend. It was a playful yet heartfelt process that prompted reflections on the complex symbolic interplay between mind and memory, loss and resilience, and life and death