CONNIE HOPE

Studio practice thus far has consisted of wall mounted collage work based on the human internal anatomy, specifically the bladder & kidneys following my research into Botulism.

I’ve started to find space in the grey area between medicine and poison.

The bladder was my visual starting point.

These wall mounts display my inability to produce the beauty of symmetry I’ve been seeing in medical dictionaries and in anatomical drawings online.

I needed to map out the shape of the human bladder, it wasn’t happening with pencil to paper.

So, scissors went to paper. They glide through the paper creating effortless duality; perfect, organic symmetry, only by seeing the half of it.

These cut outs were not only the answer to my symmetrical disposition, they helped to simplify the shapes I was longing to draw. They soon became layered references to medical diagrams.

I arranged duplicate motifs mirroring their locations; but once I had these perfect shapes, I avoided this inevitable symmetry I had created, considering every connection I made in response to our internal composition.