A reoccurring motive in my practice is the relationship between myself and two horses that I took care of from childhood on through my adolescence and early adulthood. I became the horses’ caretaker by chance; they were owned by my parents’ landlords. A dispute with the owners of the horses led to me adopting them, funded out of my own pocket through working part time jobs alongside school. They died of old age and illness under my care in 2015 and 2020.

This act of caretaking was tied up in dynamics of responsibility, labour, resentment and guilt. These topics inform my work to this day, I am exploring their impact on relationships between humans, as well as between humans and nonhumans. My choice of heavy materials that I treat with gentle care reflects these ideas, together with my digital work that deals with (re)creating physical spaces in digital worlds, therefore caring for them by way of conservation.