My practice looks at the vacant space, the hollow shell, the skin of things. I am drawn to psychologically ambiguous objects and spaces that are empty but charged and marked by the passage of people and time. I work with large format film, camera-less photography, and other creative techniques to seize the heart of my subjects.
My subjects have an intimate relationship to the body and have been handled and inhabited, they are inanimate but loaded, exposing the affecting remnants of past lives. Resonating Spaces depicts locations which have been inhabited but are vacant, allowing the viewer in; a confessional, a theatre box, a bed. My photograms are made without a camera, placing the garments on photographic paper and exposing them to light, the skin cells and body oils of their wearers seeping into the prints. My Vessels, dormant containers of rifles and pistols, crosses and medals, evoke hidden narratives and secret histories.
My work deals with absence. When something is missing, we fill in the gaps, we occupy the space with our own experience and imagination, drawing from memories which may be hidden or suppressed. The space becomes a reflection of ourselves, a chance to examine our own mind.
