Isola Corpo 2007

The cutting and pasting and piecing together mimic the vagaries of the subconscious, crafting today’s artful configurations from yesterday’s states of mind. Stockdale defines it like this: “All works are weave and weft of each other. They explore ideas about human experience being an incredible mix of past histories, memories, personal transformations, life and death cycles, despair and enlightenment.” And so, the face of the small child in Girl in darkness is obscured by a bird-feather mask like a primitive cookie monster, denoting the dark inheritance of family history that is to be hers.

Victoria Hammond, 2008