Defining You, Finding You is exhibited at Visningsrommet USF, Bergen as a textile installation, consisting of 24 illustrations digitally printed onto 140 x 90 cm panels of chiffon; they are presented in a dark room in which the viewer walks around the textiles hanging from the ceiling, viewing them with a hand-held torch. Darkness is used to awaken senses beyond the visual and create a deeply personal, intimate and immersive experience. A torch serves as a metaphor and a physical manifestation for the gaze, evoking an awareness of what we choose to look at, for how long, and when we look away.
Defining You, Finding You is a piece of speculative design that questions how diagnosis is constructed and conveyed: What if, instead of a medical practitioner, it was a sister who interpreted and presented the diagnosis? What if the diagnosis was not printed on an anonymous A4 sheet, but instead emerged through tactile, sensorial materials?
