Lauryn Arnott`s artworks delve deeply into themes on women and liminality ; that state of being in between two worlds or being in a state of ambiguity and becoming. `For most of history Anonymous was a woman` (1) ; for most of Southern African history , anonymous was not only a woman but she was commonly overlooked. In this, Arnott portrays women focusing on ideas of fortitude, emotional depth and mutuality.
Based on in situ as well as bibliographic and archival research her artworks open up the possibility of alternative forms of storytelling .There is no resolution to the fate of human kind. People cannot be blamed or shaped entirely by the histories that they are born into. However they are certainly inflicted by those histories.
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Lauryn Arnott`s artworks delve deeply into themes on women and liminality ; that state of being in between two worlds or being in a state of ambiguity and becoming. `For most of history Anonymous was a woman` (1) ; for most of Southern African history , anonymous was not only a woman but she was commonly overlooked. In this, Arnott portrays women focusing on ideas of fortitude, emotional depth and mutuality.
Based on in situ as well as bibliographic and archival research her artworks open up the possibility of alternative forms of storytelling .There is no resolution to the fate of human kind. People cannot be blamed or shaped entirely by the histories that they are born into. However they are certainly inflicted by those histories.
