Me From Myself (No.7)
Me From Myself (No.7)
2024
38 x 35 cm (including frame)
Acrylic, oil and oil stick on canvas on board
Framed in black, floating, depth 5.5 cm
About this work
This piece contributes to a series of text-based exploration referencing a poem by Emily Dickinson, Me From Myself – To Banish. I am fascinated with the human condition and the stories we tell ourselves, often without realising. Emily Dickinson's poem explores this, the realisation of self-conflict, the need to be present in it, and perhaps to banish what is not serving oneself.
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Me from Myself — to banish —
Had I Art — Impregnable my Fortress
Unto All Heart —
But since Myself — assault Me —
How have I peace
Except by subjugating
Consciousness?
And since We're mutual Monarch
How this be
Except by Abdication —
Me — of Me?