Embrace Me

“In many ways Embrace Me seems to be a sequel to Josephine’s Well. Again, a dark void and a floating, naked figure, in this case a baby. The baby comes slowly forwards from the darkness, opens his arms in surrender, in embrace, and seems briefly to break free from the darkness around him, only to fade back into it again.

Here is a similar technique and movement, the same themes of slowness and intensity, beauty and vulnerability. Despite this, we encounter two very different worlds. The world of Josephine’s Well is outside us, beyond us; that of Embrace Me is deep within ourselves. Here the desire is for our own deepest being, our origin, our beginning. Which is stored somewhere within us, not in our heads, but in our hearts. While Josephine’s Well is about the desire for the other, Embrace Me addresses our desire for something in ourselves that we experience but cannot see.”