catalog and Artist Statement

Grande’s Café and Gallery

On the lawns in Manuka

Tabitha Mann | Dissociation

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Artist Statement

At last, we are now in our twenties, our teenage self is long dead and our long awaited adulthood has arrived! Or so we thought…

At home, at Uni, at work or in our relationships we feel restless and lash out. In dissociation I have used fashion as a way to investigate this identity crisis; we embellish ourselves and have pink hair to discover who we are.

Whether the expectations we feel are from ourselves or other people the pressure seems too much to bare in this period of our life. We yearn for our free of responsibility childhood and become stuck in ‘what’s next?’

Dissociation is a small series that explores the quarter life crisis; this transition period between Teen and Adult. We thought we worked out who we were as teenagers but apparently there’s much more to learn.