My art is the product of a lifelong passion for travel and cross-cultural dialogue, but what drives and directs me is the creative process itself. Researching and executing artistic endeavours is, for me, like following a map. My work testifies to this ordered, action-oriented process, though no viewer need read into it; still, m aps form the basis of my work. Maps: markers of where I've been, where I am, where I might aspire to. The journeys they document reveal my personal quest for self-definition through individual expression and mutual (mis)interpretation: who am I, what do (you think) I mean?

In process, I manipulate themes of (dis-)location and (re-)orientation, finding or defining place. My canvases are collages of maps: origin, destination and dislocation recombined to form new geographies – satellite views of nowhere. By charting fragmented landscapes or half-geographies, my objective is to dislocate the viewer, to invite a repositioning in time and space. In a non-existent yet half-remembered place, there is comfort in the familiar... even when it's unknown.

The common thread through all my work is… thread. Threads are the roots that anchor my pieces and hold them together; threads are what is left behind when one puts down new roots. While the stitching itself is a nod to traditional embroidery work by women, I sew my text on a machine – disabling the foot and forcing the mechanism to produce letters. Even so, such ‘woman's work' may occupy a place in mine.

The text woven through my canvases conveys thoughts caught half-expressed: words, subtracted from context, that force the reader to find meaning between the lines. Like communicating in a foreign language, much is lost in the translation, yet even more is gained.

Accompanying my canvases are shoes, sewn with maps, forming an evolving complementary piece. Inspired conceptually by Antony Gormley's installation Field for the British Isles , its import and impact continues to shift and progress as the shoes increase in number. Likewise, their configuration conjures, variously, notions of: travel, location, direction, confusion, indecision, determination…