'I remember who I am' is part of a series of intuitive, practice-led works developed through an embodied response to place, memory, and the body’s capacity to hold and process experience. I was thinking about Katherine Hayles’ idea of the “non-conscious”—those cognitive processes that happen below awareness, shaped through constant exchange between body, mind, and environment.

Visually, I’m working to enmesh the body with the landscape or waterbody—not just to represent sensation, but to shift focus. I want to decentralise the figure, allowing the environment to hold more agency and presence, while maintaining a dynamic balance of power between body and place.

I’m interested in how time works in these processes—how healing doesn’t move in a straight line, but folds in on itself as you try to reassemble a sense of self. This folding of time and memory is reflected visually: layers of video show a figure moving in the ocean shallows, framed by a rocky beach but without a visible horizon to anchor the space. Additional layers of waves wash over the top, dissolving the figure and rocks, creating a disorienting and immersive sense of fractured time and space—mirroring the internal experience the work explores.

My creative process is much like a collage—fragments appear spontaneously and come together over time. The video captures what I think of as private performances with the earth—improvised, felt interactions that are later layered and heavily remixed. The sound was made separately, using slowed-down and distorted samples from a classical piece I happened to hear on the radio: Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen, performed by Jascha Heifetz and conducted by John Barbirolli. It struck me emotionally and physically as I was driving, connecting deeply to what I’d just experienced on the beach. Its intensity and fractured beauty mirrored something about that moment.

The lyrics come from a poem I wrote after a strong visual experience during a therapy session. Layering them into the soundscape became part of processing that memory, folding personal history into the broader collage of body, place, and time.