DOG began as an insult. It explores generational trauma, abandonment, and the pull to return to what hurts you. Raised as an Afrikaans girl in post-apartheid South Africa, I found my wounds were never only my own; they sat inside a nation's.
I’m left unresolved. My dad lives on the moon is a work about a daughter seeking to understand, but also about South Africa’s unfinished reckoning with peace and belonging - the quiet, unresolved spaces that endure between people, love and exclusion.
Houseplant is a work on my ultimate escape from a predefined societal expectation of womanhood.
A visual exploration and personal reflection on the essence of identity and abuse in our humanity.