Why do certain thoughts continually appear in our minds? We can experience repeated memories – often so different from actuality – and the idea evolved that these could be other people’s memories which have made themselves your own.  I became aware of people’s methods of protecting their interior space for reasons of survival, and the efforts made to keep these thoughts buried inside, quietly private. The exterior viewed by the outside world becomes a protective shell, a mask, or even an electric fence. In the cause of self-preservation, the boundary between the external and the internal world has to become thicker, higher, and spikier leading to the notion of the head as fortress.

Memories layered on top of each and other packed inside our heads are waiting to spring out uninvited. Occasionally, the inside spills out or the outside melts in. Heads appear to be ready to thoughtfully or powerfully protect our day to day existence, allowing us to move from one place to another, from one time to another.

My first head drawing was a large charcoal and chalk image which had to give the illusion of the buzzing sound of white noise in my head. Lines were continually drawn, rubbed out and replaced by more lines.

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