Artist Statement
Judging a Book by its Cover
We are accustomed to a particular entrenched visual language but these are not natural rules; they are inherited. The landscape has been hijacked by an historic and contemporary aesthetic infecting the interpretation of the world. This customary framework that now contextualizes events for us, subjugates our responsibility for its content.
Photography allows the emotions within us to be manifest in momentary glimpses of the lives of others. This can be an exploration of the limits of our own universes. If the personal worldview is accepted as perhaps not being a definitive representation of reality, it may be possible to empathise more successfully with others.
Process Statement
Photographs are not considered in the conventional sense as 2 dimensional representations of reality. At the final stage of presentation the images can be detached from their original purpose, re-adjusting or removing titles and narrative explanation.
Here conventional consideration is not given to truth. It is an exposed prejudiced view on display, an infection of the personal experience and a critique of realism. One intention is to explore the complexity of the human experience with genuine ambivalence and in its most general sense experimental as it reveals itself to the camera.
The primary objective is a dislocation; challenging existing constructs that define an individual universe, using the photographic aesthetic as a trusted contemporary medium of record.