I seek within my work that abstract relationship which we hold with our landscape. The sociological interaction with history and muddy earth, the established memory that is held in the significant locality, and static that is left behind in the wake of a hasty withdrawal. I’m interested in the intangible connection between skin and earth, exploring my personal identity with the ancestral landscape of the Llynfi Valley. I disperse my images, scattering landscapes amongst the contours of familiar skin, creating blurred constructs of memory. My mother is my subject, and therefore she speaks in this work, the Welsh language of her childhood – poetry in her mother tongue and in the English words of her daughter, her beloved poems, echoing the landscapes of her memory. This work creates an environment to which personal identity can be considered with the refined memories that we hold with landscape.
lizmouncer@gmail.com