When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, she left behind 40 hand bound manuscripts of poems. The books were disassembled and regrouped for publication as ‘fascicules’ under the headings ‘Life, Love, Nature and Eternity’.

It is now thought that this reordering of Dickinson’s manuscripts, without reference to her personal intentions may have altered the original meaning inherent in her work.

The taking of objects out of context will always alter their original meaning and identity. We take cultural artefacts and natural forms away from their true environment and place them within the labelled and catalogued environs of the museum, though their substance remains the same, their meaning is altered.

The ‘Collection’ can be used in a specific and controlled way to explore issues of identity, and the alteration and subversion of meaning, as Baudrillard said: ….eclectic gathering forms our Post Modernist environment.

The found object taken from its environment, collected by the artist, ceases to exist as itself- the nature and meaning of the object are altered, simply because it is now the possession of the artist and ultimately the viewer.

The telling and retelling of an event will preserve the truth…the rediscovery of the event…the constant repetition of the original…the constant rediscovery of the truth….

Repeated reproduction and retelling of an event or image does not preserve truth, original meaning is be subverted and ultimately lost

True reality is personal shaped and reshaped by our own interpretation of the truth.

My art is a series of collections.

Objects in my collection are drawn and redrawn, made and remade, over and over.