- she works both as an artist using self-portrature, still life photography, digital imagine and video, and as a photographer/therapist to extend the range of potential meanings that lie within notions of domestic photography and to explore the relationships between photography, memory, identities and unconscious processes.
- Through embodiment, she explores the psychic and social construction of identities within the drama of the everyday.
- Exploring themes such as: gender, sexuality, ageing, class, desire, memory, location, urbanism, shame, family dynamics, power/powerlessness, health and disease, bereavement, grief, loss and reparation, her work makes the multiplicity of identities that an individual inhabits, using the 'self' as a text to be deconstructed, reviewed, challenged and reconsidered.
I screen shotted these images from Martin's website. She likes to collect ''images and stuff''. I find her website very interesting, it's very personal and unique in the way that she isn't trying to promote her work as such, it's more like she's trying to express herself through her work and on the site by telling us what she's like, what she's all about. I like her honesty about collecting things and her enthusiasm to show the public what her home looks like when some people may call it 'messy', she calls it home. This particular work of hers is chaotic, personal and tells us a story on how she lives and likes to live. The collecting and arranging of the papers and images remind me of an OCD sufferer taking out his/her compulsions on arrangement and sorting. It would be interesting to visit the home of an OCD sufferer to see if their house is arranged in a particular way for example if their CD's are all numbered and ordered or if the TV remotes where lines up in a perfect line.
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