THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

There is a certain type of artist who, confronted with a life that renders their basic survival tenuous, invents a character who can endure and even transcend the precarity of their circumstances.  Did the myth of the mermaid spring from a desire to project an evolved version of herself into the world?  One who could not only survive, but also thrive, amid the dangers of the deep sea? “A lot of people don’t know that, when I say I’m a mermaid, it’s not just some cosplay thing,” she says.

Connor/Dazed, 2023