Michaela Younge was born in Cape Town in 1993. She graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2015. Michaela received distinctions in both her theoretical and practical studies. She currently works from her Cape Town base, where she creates wool tableaux that she sometimes combines with other textural materials. Through her process of felting, Michaela works in quite a repetitive manner, matting the wool together. The subjects in her work shift from experiences to dreamlike narrative that unfold on multiple planes. Although there is an aspect of narrative that comes through in Michaela’s work, this originates more from the way in which she sees things, rather than a deep-rooted nostalgia for story time as a child. Instead, story-telling becomes a way of making sense of the world we inhabit, and it comes through in how our dreams communicate ideas and feelings to us. Dreams have the ability to bypass ‘norms’ of reality, and often have elements of the absurd – for example, the idea that pasta on the floor of the house could stop lava from burning it down. Her interest in the anthropomorphic relates to our underlying psychology, where we often enact societal norms, bypassing instinctual desire and childlike play.