Sasha Hitchcock is a Photographer working out of Hampshire, UK. She is a graduate of the University of the Creative Arts, Farnham. Her work explores themes of emotion, memory, and identity in which she uses the camera to record a compilation of moments in time. Hitchcock works intuitively exploring the link between body and mind, using the camera as a tool for emotional expression.
About Skeleton Woman – words by Sasha Hitchcock:
Within the project Skeleton Woman, I am interested in the phenomenon of dissociation, intergenerational memory, and childhood amnesia. Working with a body psychotherapist, I try to explore the link between the body and the mind and the concept of character and body armoring – the body’s way of storing memory that shows up as coping patterns, character defenses, and muscle tension as a result of blocked emotions. I always look at creativity as an expression of our inner world and how armoring can lead to a restrictive creative process and a reduction in a natural expression of our unique Self. The camera is a tool to explore my subconscious and repressed infantile memories, analyzing the subject matter, whether somatic or atmospheric, that I am continuously drawn back to throughout the project.
With this project, I document the journey of breaking away from intergenerational themes and out of dissociation. This cathartic way of working supports the movement out of a functional freeze response towards nervous system regulation, allowing the life force and creativity to flow freely. The restrictive creative process that relied heavily upon a set of conditions would now be able to be experienced as a spontaneous creative impulse, as Carl Jung describes, “a living thing implanted in the human psyche”.
