Rabbit Fur is the first of a series of images created during photographic sessions with my mother in which we try to describe the struggle to create our own identity, independent from one another. Using objects as ‘props’, in this case a rabbit fur scarf and a dressing gown, I hope to visually interpret this conflict at its peak, before the friendship resumes. The work has strong groundings in Photo Therapy, a psychoanalytical term used since the mid 1970’s to describe camera-made images produced with the intention of self-healing or personal solution. For this reason the work has a relationship to narcissism in psychological terms, particularly Lacan’s ‘mirror stage’. It could be said that I am using my mother as a mirror to better understand my own sense of ‘self’.