Caroline Thomas
'Poached Eggs [X Marks the Spot]'
When I was growing up in the 1970s I was, what was termed in those days, a ‘tomboy’. I wore my elder brother’s hand-me-down trousers, had short hair and mentally punched the air when the owner of the corner shop called me ‘sonny’. The biggest accolade of all was to be mistaken for a boy because, weren’t boys better somehow?
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As I have grown older, the implications of developing inside a female body have presented me with many challenges, many of which have not worked out. This work, ‘Poached Eggs [X marks the spot], acknowledges that living life as a female is sometimes not all it’s cracked up to be.
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This work was made as part of an online show conceived during lockdown in New Zealand in early 2020. I made a body of work about the alternate lives I might have lived if events had taken a different course. Lockdown seemed a particularly appropriate time to reflect on the precariousness of existence and the lack of control any of us really have.
![Caroline Thomas, Poached Eggs [X marks the spot]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bfd81f_fd9f601883a24b499fb1de9a97068a50~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_980,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/bfd81f_fd9f601883a24b499fb1de9a97068a50~mv2.jpg)
2020, Vintage egg poachers, brass washers, fencing wire, pewter, 70 cm long x 15cm wide x 7cm deep
![Caroline Thomas, Poached Eggs [X marks the spot]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bfd81f_ea03c01ee2fa4f54a45900509426eb2b~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_980,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/bfd81f_ea03c01ee2fa4f54a45900509426eb2b~mv2.jpg)
2020, Vintage egg poachers, brass washers, fencing wire, pewter, 70 cm long x 15cm wide x 7cm deep
![Caroline Thomas, Poached Eggs [X marks the spot]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bfd81f_2856a1c57f0b44abbb233821cdcf1b87~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_980,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/bfd81f_2856a1c57f0b44abbb233821cdcf1b87~mv2.jpg)
2020, Vintage egg poachers, brass washers, fencing wire, pewter, 70 cm long x 15cm wide x 7cm deep
![Caroline Thomas, Poached Eggs [X marks the spot]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bfd81f_fd9f601883a24b499fb1de9a97068a50~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_980,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/bfd81f_fd9f601883a24b499fb1de9a97068a50~mv2.jpg)
2020, Vintage egg poachers, brass washers, fencing wire, pewter, 70 cm long x 15cm wide x 7cm deep
This piece is available for sale: POA
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