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Her work is inspired by the condition of itinerancy and the importance migrant people attach to photographs of family and friends – often the only material possessions they carry with them. \r\n\r\nShe keeps with her a troupe of dolls, which she has made by photographing her own face, manipulating the image on the computer, and digitally printing it onto a sheet of cloth. This she trims, stitches and stuffs to form a head, attaching found objects, which act as reminders of places in which she has stopped. She creates installations with these dolls in a variety of situations, which she often photographs. In one project she created a set of ‘ID’ cards – ‘ID’ meaning ‘Intensively Displaced’ not ‘Identity’. This head appears on one of them (see Museum nos. E.215-218-2005).","physicalDescription":"Sculptural, 3-d form made of stitched cotton cloth bag stuffed with acrylic stuffing and then securely fastened. The cotton cloth has the image of a face printed on it, but the features are very blurred. On top of the 'head'  is stitched a fragment of ornamentally carved wood.  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