ALi hodgson - anima
Moon Phases
Mother Wolf
The Return
Anima is a triptych of prints taken from a larger body of narrative work exploring themes around venturing out of the boundaries of domesticated life and into something altogether wilder and less contained. What happens when we step out of the comfort-zone of the familiar and into the uncharted territory of the subconscious or instinctual aspects of our psyche, or even beyond the individual self? If ‘home’ is a symbol for the known, a place of comfort and safety or banality and captivity, what happens when we are willing to go beyond that space and look back on it from the outside in?
This series of images explores these themes through the lens of the interplay between the feminine and the masculine aspects of our nature and the cyclical reality of the physical experience: birth, death and rebirth. The symbolism in the imagery points to the opposite of home: a sense of unease and uncertainty through the dark, dream-like drawings, initially of a woman shedding her clothes and escaping out of the window into the night, and into a world pregnant with possibility, the unknown inner experience, hidden influences, loss of control and a deeper layer of awareness unrooted in any logical sense of right and wrong, but situated in a deeper connection to the underlaying reality and mystery of nature.
Medium: giclee print
Dimensions: 30 x 30 cm
This series of images explores these themes through the lens of the interplay between the feminine and the masculine aspects of our nature and the cyclical reality of the physical experience: birth, death and rebirth. The symbolism in the imagery points to the opposite of home: a sense of unease and uncertainty through the dark, dream-like drawings, initially of a woman shedding her clothes and escaping out of the window into the night, and into a world pregnant with possibility, the unknown inner experience, hidden influences, loss of control and a deeper layer of awareness unrooted in any logical sense of right and wrong, but situated in a deeper connection to the underlaying reality and mystery of nature.
Medium: giclee print
Dimensions: 30 x 30 cm