Secure Unit

A yellow post-it note on the title page of the first dummy reads - 'The voice of a woman with ordinary embarrassing vanity, surprised by life, doing the best she can.'  Except, I thought.  Actually, it is more the voice of a woman, shocked to voicelessness, who has since then, never had any voice. A voiceless woman speaking. On behalf of one million micro fragments, a porridge of incoherent  groans and sighs.

I am a visual artist. My academic interests include post Freudian psychoanalytic theory and the nature of our subjection - to language itself, and in our relationships with one another. How does what we think we want, differ from what is actually possible? What strategies can be found to best maintain and survive the space for new possibilities, when we are so attached to what we believe are known and secure features of our lives?

I am interested in the nature of and the various ways to represent the apparently unrepresentable – the shape that appears when we think we have said everything that can be said. Secure Unit will be published in various volumes.  These will be bedside table books that suggest possibilities for managing the intra psychic dialogue, when facing profound and insistent not knowing.