Description

I couldn’t get away from this image of the hunchback. It started to appear everywhere. On daily outings to the park I noticed the number of women who were hunched over, some physically, some metaphorically; each carrying the weight of their own story, as if all in unison, yet seemingly unaware of each other. I found myself situated as a voyeur, observing from a safe platform, and feeling satisfied at my own analysis, but somehow I was torn. I felt that I belonged to these women. I wondered if  they saw it too. And as I looked up, I found that I too had been leaning over to remove the stone from my son’s shoe.
That was the start of my journey towards the print I have chosen to edition for the project
In my work I often follow a process of addressing and attempting to resolve a problem, whilst inversely hoping to ask questions rather than answer them.
My work can take the form of intuitive explorations driven by an internal logic, which can meander through mediums and formats to reflect the transformation process that fascinates me. I am concerned with shifts in consciousness and dualities and by that which is unseen; by energy, potential and transformation.
Although I used Dylan’s text as a starting point to investigate my own observed version of the hunchback, developed from ideas in his poem, The hunchback in the
park, I also draw parallels with my own realisation and that of some of the characters in Rachel Trezise’s shortstories.
Through this process I have found further lines of inquiry that I hope to continue exploring, including the disappearance of the park’s elm trees, which Dylan himself compared to a straight-backed woman.
Raised in Port Talbot, Adele Vye studied Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University. She won the John Brookes Memorial Prize for Fine Art in 2005and Welsh Artist of The Year