Hannah Caprice

We all fall down 2022
etching and aquatint; edition 1/15
Courtesy of the artist

Artist statement:

I am a Canadian-Australian emerging artist with Indo-Trinidadian and Slavic heritage. My work explores themes of hybrid identity and the search for belonging. As a cross-cultural kid, I notice a strange beauty in being an adaptable misfit: belonging everywhere and nowhere; feeling fragmented and whole all at once. The creatures in my work are a metaphor for these identities—composed of many odd parts but exhibiting a sense of completeness in and of themselves. They express a yearning to belong and connect with others, but also to belong to themselves.

In We all fall down, the sudden reaction of a cat causes the bouquet and its inhabitants to meet their untimely demise. This work asks viewers to contemplate the unintentional harm we may inflict on others through our irrational fear or suspicion of them. What possibilities might flourish if we sought to know and understand one another?