I am a contemporary visual artist who specializes in drawing.  My body of work explores drawing that functions as a valuable vehicle which facilitates reciprocity between the drafter and her life-world.  I propose that this relationship of exchange can bring about transformation of the self.

My drawings are rooted in a psycho-analytical framework, focusing on Self psychology and Intersubjective Psychoanalysis of certain personality psychologists.  Valuable links are forged between the transformative potential of drawing, the psychological and the spiritual.  Through interactivity between the self and her life-world through drawing, moments of ‘recognition’ and ‘knowing’ occur - concerning hidden ‘truths’ of the self, which could affect personal transformation.  In my work, the “life-world” comprises inner and outer world, a visible and invisible world.  The visible world focuses on the interaction of the self with nature and culture, and the invisible world focuses on the interaction of the self with a psychic world, which includes the workings of the conscious and unconscious mind in drawing and their connection with a spiritual dimension.

The spiritual aspect in drawing is researched through the notions of transformative “presence” and the “transcendent function” of drawing.  I explore the psychological and spiritual value of drawings as transformative selfobjects to address the general neglect of the spiritual.  Furthermore, I affirm that there exists a mutually conducive potential and influence that the interplay between the spiritual and the psychological in the drawing process bring about.  As a “selfobject”, a drawing attains its own ‘silent visual language’ replacing or assisting the role of the therapist, becoming pivotal in a transformative ‘interpersonal dialogue’.  Lastly, Jung (Miller, 2004:4) claims that the unification of the conscious and unconscious eventually results in “a living birth that leads to a new level of being, a new situation” (Miller, 2004:4).