Orlando
A horizontally orientated frieze consisting of three watercolour works, depicting various hermaphroditic organisms, interspersed with photocopy transfer printed text from Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando. The work highlights the aesthetic splendour of creatures that cannot be classed according to conventional notions of gender. In so doing it highlights the beauty of gender ambiguity. It also emphasizes the arbitrary and potentially divisive nature of the human need for certainty which is manifested in excessive categorization.
A horizontally orientated frieze consisting of three watercolour works, depicting various hermaphroditic organisms, interspersed with photocopy transfer printed text from Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando. The work highlights the aesthetic splendour of creatures that cannot be classed according to conventional notions of gender. In so doing it highlights the beauty of gender ambiguity. It also emphasizes the arbitrary and potentially divisive nature of the human need for certainty which is manifested in excessive categorization.