# Project Description

Blood, Breath and Boundaries

Maya Homer

Summary

Final work

My work is rooted in personal, cultural, and emotional exploration. I’m heavily influenced by the complexity of identity, memory, and the body how they shift in response to place, time, and connection. I’m drawn to distortion physical, emotional, and visual as a way to explore the tension between what is known and what is unsettled. My work leans into strangeness: forms and gestures that feel almost out of place, yet eerily familiar. D rawing  from both lived experience and broader social narratives, often blurring the line between the internal and external worlds.

I’m interested in how we hold stories in our bodies, and how the unseen—grief, longing, rage, tenderness—can be made visible through material, gesture, and space.

When people experience my work, I want them to feel seen. I aim to create spaces for quiet recognition, discomfort, or release—moments that invite emotional honesty and provoke reflection, whether soft or sharp. My practice is an ongoing conversation, not just about what we show, but what we carry.

My work is rooted in personal, cultural, and emotional exploration. I’m heavily influenced by the...

College School of Pre-Degree Studies

Course UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Graduation year 2025

I'm drawn to moments where movement, costume/props, sound and space collide to expose something raw and honest.

This project is a way of listening to what the body remembers, of making visible what often goes unseen, and of creating space for reflection, awareness, and emotional connection. The body becomes both the canvas and the message; exposed, vulnerable, and powerful in relation to PCOS.

Final work

PCOS Awareness pice -"Blood , Breath and Boundaries

Featuring two blood-stained costumes used in the live piece -hanging from the ceiling like suspended bodies, with projections cast onto the wall and a rotating costumes—creating a chaotic, distorted visual alongside loud screams.

Live performance piece PCOS

Performance piece filmed in Leicester square - 23/04/2025 -4:03pm

The hanging soles

p2

Research and process

View Gallery

View Gallery

View Gallery

Costume process

Share this project

I'm drawn to moments where movement, costume/props, sound and space collide to expose something raw and honest.This project is a way of listening to what the body remembers, of making visible what often goes unseen, and of creating space for reflection, awareness, and e...

A link to this page has been added to your clipboard

Browse related work

Body

Being Human

Beyond Human

Identity

Health & Wellbeing

Realities

Conflict & Its Effects

Mental Health

Gender

Body

Emotion

Femininity

Experimentation

PerformanceArt

Performance

Projection

Music

Costume

Public
