Planets in my Head is a series of figurative child-sized sculptures that represent different spheres of knowledge attributed to Western culture. Each sculpture will feature a child, in Victorian costume made from Dutch wax batik fabrics, with a celestial globe placed where normally there would be a head. Each child will be sculpted holding and using paraphernalia representing the specific subject they embody, whilst the celestial globe “heads” will map out new non-Eurocentric understandings of each area of knowledge.

This series of sculptures is set against the current context of global anxiety about the planet. Incorporating once again a globe-like form into the works, the sculptures will look at ideas of breaking with traditional and established Western canons of knowledge. Here with Westernized tools in hand, the children are subverting an European inspired understanding of the world. They depart Earth and enter the galaxies where they may resist the formalization of knowledge that the West sets up. They are re-imagining the bodies of knowledge to create a new globalized perspective.