In 2019 I underwent open heart surgery as a result of gradually diminishing health which is a result of a congenital heart condition which set be out on a documented exploration of identity. This inspired me to produce my first films Waterways and Breathless.​ Waterways (2022) is a visual representation of one person’s continuous, fleeting, dreamlike, interlinked reality imagined as journey through waterways. Breathless (2023) is an autobiographical account of my 2019 trauma and resolution depicting declining health, the lead up to open heart surgery and going through to theatre, followed by an account of recovery in intensive care and then making it out of hospital.

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With two new breast cancer diagnoses in 2023 my autobiographical work has further deepened. It has become about endurance of receiving long term treatment. The feminist stance of the ‘personal is political’ is still at the centre of my investigations with the intent of making my personal experiences more widely relatable through identification, in the hope it will help other people facing similar challenges.

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A Meditation on Trauma (2024), sits independently to Breathless but is also a reflection on recent bodily trauma after receiving my first breast cancer diagnosis (duct cancer). It is about how you emotionally absorb information such as this, the feeling of prolonged stages of uncertainty and the fragility of life.

 

From January 2024 and onwards I have been documenting my journey after my second breast cancer diagnosis (triple negative). While receiving treatment at Barts hospital, London, I have gathered autobiographic footage as well as recorded interviews of other breast cancer patients. I am editing this material into an account where I am speaking alongside others, as part of an autobiographical documentary. I anticipate completion end of 2025.