My
work explores themes of perception, repetition, and cognitive reflections. It also addresses elements of the paradoxical.
I explore perception to blur the boundary between the real and the
imagined. In altering the perceived reality captured in
a photograph I invite the mind to commence on an imaginative
journey of reflection. I use repetition as a means of
creating paradoxes. Repetition is fascinating. It is on the one hand
an expression of the mundane and predictable, a desperate and
manic desire for consistency. Then, on the other it is
a means of creating a phase shift, like the rhythmic pulsing of a mantra, a calling to look
beyond the
obvious. These kinds of constructs creates a tension between
the static nature of recognition and the inherent
dynamism present in every act of recollection. My work
exploits this tension.
The paradoxical
is really my staging post, the muses calling to play and an
invitation to create metaphors for expression.
Once expressed they belong to you the viewer, and
are an invitation to access emotions created from your own
reflections. I hope the work gives you as much joy as it has
given me in
creating it. |