A conceptual vision
This threshold marks the movement from hidden to visible, from silence to voice.
It gathers the grounding, evolving, and emerging stages into a living continuum —
a practice that reveals itself gradually, layer by layer.
Here, objects become metaphors, memory becomes material, and identity moves into presence. It is not an ending, but an opening: a space where the unseen is recognised,
and the practice continues to unfold in new forms of being.
Standing at the threshold, in the space between a significant pause and new momentum.
Being Seen begins here, at this edge: earlier works, memories, and writings gathering to be reframed. The threshold is both stillness and movement, a place of returning and of turning to face a new direction.
This project reframes existing artworks through the awareness of lived experience. Collages, fabric pieces, digital experiments, and installations are no longer seen as isolated outcomes but as interconnected layers of a larger narrative. Reframing reveals what was always present: the thread of intergenerational memory, the silence that shaped identity, the shifting ground of diagnosis and self-knowledge, the emergence of voice through making.
The journey so far has been shaped by foundational works, an evolving practice and an extended pause. Emerging from this pause is a new perspective, reflecting on what’s passed through a new lens. Being seen, a new body of works, is unfolding and waits patiently beyond this threshold.
Rooting
Rooted in BA Fine Art, this stage centred on cultural identity and diaspora, explored through collage and narrative layering. The work was accompanied by a dissertation and a theoretical exhibition proposal on diaspora, decoupling, and representation, establishing the conceptual ground of practice.
Evolving
Developed during MA study, this phase introduced the idea of memories held within objects. Ignored and overlooked items—locks, hinges, household tools—were reframed through the research paper An Object is Just an Object. Personal circumstances brought this work to a premature end, leaving the MA unfinished and leading to an extended pause.
The pause became a space of reflection and adjustment, in which the effects of menopause on a neurodivergent persona prompted the pursuit of greater understanding.
Here, in this pause before momentum, the project declares itself in anticipation: a practice of reframing, remembering, and of being seen.
Emerging
From that pause, a new perspective surfaced, an emerging lens. Earlier works are now revisited with greater awareness of neurodivergence, spirituality, and shifting identity. Invisibility, silence, and resilience are recognised as threads running through the practice, waiting to be drawn out.
The threshold lies here, between Emerging Lens and Unfolding. It is the place of anticipation and direction, the pause before momentum. At the threshold, the plan takes shape but remains in motion: threads are ready to be woven, research to be rewritten, installations to be realised, a Masters pathway to be pursued.
Unfolding
From this threshold forward, the work unfolds. What has been gathered will take new form through installation, soundscape, collage, and writing. Domestic objects, generational anchors, silence and sound, traditional and digital processes, personal narrative, and universal resonance will all be drawn into dialogue. The reframing of the earlier research paper will shape a theoretical and creative spine for the project. A future exhibition is envisioned, where these elements converge to create both archive and declaration.
Being Seen is not yet complete—it is becoming. It inhabits the space between inheritance and vision, silence and voice, concealment, and revelation.
Michelle Wright, Fine Artist 