What is Sheila really thinking during her typical day? She wears a beautiful red dress representing what she wants the outside world to see. Hiding thoughts that lie beneath… What a beautiful front for a messy reality.

The original exhibition was a collaboration between myself, writer Kelly-Lee Hickey and sound artist Tammy Benitez. We worked on the idea of triptychs: Three phases of the day; triptych presentation of the colour photographs; triplet poems. A nine-minute sound scape accompanied the colour (cross-processed) and black and white images, whilst the words gave “Sheila” a voice, her thoughts.
The words voiced the dichotomy of Sheila’s thoughts, while the black and white and colour images reflected them. Voyeuristically observing how Sheila gets through her day and how it ultimately ends.

Unfortunately the complete format of the exhibition is not shown on this website. So for now please enjoy the colour images as they were shown.

Wood St Gallery, Darwin
9 - 18 December 2004