Artist Statement

My work at this moment in time explores ‘The Everyday’ primarily forgotten or lost moments in time.  This exploration stems from found photographs from the early 19th century.  From these photographs I am reconstructing or re-representing an absent moment or experience that occurred previously.  I feel we cannot actively look at the past separate to the present, the past conjures up everyday experiences of the present time therefore blurring the past and the present.  I have taken short videos from everyday experiences breaking them into silhouettes and shadows and displaying them as an animation. I feel breaking the videos into silhouettes and shadows de-personalise them and gives them a ubiquitous stance.  I am also exploring how images can evoke emotional private responses in a viewer - this is what I personally discovered when I found the photographs.  I am also interested in the moment of capture in photography and I question whether the captured image or frozen moment portrays a true representation of that moment in time. For a further reference to time I shall display my animations on optical devices from then and now.

Further themes throughout my work-:

personal narratives
historic
romantic
nostalgia
analog
motion
relationships
self awareness

Twirl

Found Photograph Album and Animation - Momentum