Jean Floyed - statement for 'A Matter of Process'

I explore the influences of childhood in my work - the process of socialisation and how this lays a foundation for our lives, leading to the psychological places in which we live as adults. A primary aim has been to create an outer experience of inner places, investigating the inner world of ‘self’ and its relationship and boundary with outer and ‘other’. I’m intrigued by the idea that it is not just particular events that occur during childhood but the atmosphere of the home that can have a huge influence on us, an atmosphere made up of endlessly repeated patterns of behaviour.