'Everything turns into breath' explores hypervigilance and anxiety through the bodily function of the breath.
The post partum world of 'Yellow Rattle' takes on golden pallor that dwells both in the warmth of sunrise and glistening colostrum, while at times erring into the sickly, choleric chartreuse of the body: jaundice, infection and iodine.
‘The waves came in like horses’ traces an oscillatory transition into matrescence; the slow physiological and emotional entwinement of two beings that occurs within the pregnant body.
In ‘Reigning Toward Aries’ Stephanie O’Connor explores the emotional oscillations of impending parenthood through dusk-drenched scenes. Visions of rams and faceless figures haunt deserted parks and dimly-lit stages, presenting a theatre of chaos.
Dwelling amidst mercurial images of nature, ‘never tire of looking at the stars’ sees flesh and flora meld into one another. These living things invoke each other. One isn't merely the reflection of the other; what is felt in the land is felt in the body.
A new collection of images from Stephanie O’Connor captures the delicate fecundity of Spring. Scouring urban cities for flora, the urban concrete city densely layered with histories and populated by transitory residents who bloom and fade with seasons.