My work explores the simple intricacies and uncertainties of being human, particularly the ways in which we make sense of ourselves and the world through narrative and story-telling. Rooted in connections between lived experience, photographic practice and contemporary scientific and creative theory and research.
Scenes from the Network explores the external world through the marks made by humans and natural elements on the landscape and coexisting internal narratives evoked by journeys and experiences in the landscape. Drawing on archival material, Tales of Unseen Stories is similarly interested in the ways in which fragments of experience, memory and imagination combine in endless ways and repetitions to create the changing stories of who we might be.
The earlier project, Illusions of Self, uses the rooms and possessions in my mother’s home to explore the ways in which our essence transcends our bodies, to reach into and inhabit places, objects and other people in the unfolding deterioration and gradual dissolution of the unoccupied house.
The companion photomontages explore ways in which traces of seen, unseen and hidden selves can come to inhabit us, coalescing in momentary and persistent fusions, melancholic speculations and darker agitations.
Other works such as Landscape memories and Found light draw on and reexamine objects, places and archival material to explore the possibilities of other meanings and ways of seeing.
The works are an expression of the ways that photographic multimedia can absorb and frame aspects of the self as well as function more broadly as material objects.