Locus of the Dress is a large body of work concerned with exploring the fine veneer of cloth that stands between us and the world, investigating the EXTERNAL & INTERNAL landscape of a dress, its zones of psychogeography, a place we inhabit as home physically & psychologically.

 I collaborated with psychologist Dr. Hermina Hernaiz to explore Locus of Control a theory which pinpoints our sense of self, on a spectrum. Pertinent to our times, those with an EXTERNAL Locus feel powerless to life’s events, feeling like things are being done to them. We are all striving for a strong INTERNAL Locus, enabling command, responsibility & autonomy.

Read the preface of essay written by Dr Herminia Hernaiz-Sanders, Clinical Psychologist and Shelly Goldsmith at https://archivistaddendum.com/Shelly-Goldsmith

The dress is complete. It's like a little planet a conversation between Dal Chodha and Shelly Goldsmith was published as a chapter in Archivist Addendum 2022 https://tenderbooks.co.uk/products/archivist-addendum-1

You can take the online standard questionnaire for locating your own Locus of Control at https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/tests/personality/locus-of-control-test