2023. Lenticular 3D lightjet print on lightbox. 105 x 105 x 5 cm.
DISCLAIMER: This series of works was designed so as to be impossible to photograph, in reaction to the tyranny of Instagram. Standing in front of one, with your two eyes, you look into a fully three-dimensional scene, like one of those museum dioramas. Every element has been sculpted, and you can look around and discover new details, the perspective changing as you move your head. But photograph it, and the space collapses. So here I am, hoist by my own petard!
The series is called Memento Mori, densely layered narrative tableaux that investigate the philosophical and emotional dimensions of death, variously seen as erasure, exile, annihilation, transformation, forgetting; each one based on the loss of a significant person in my life.
Metempsychosis
2021. Lenticular 3D lightjet print on lightbox. 105 x 105 x 5 cm.
DISCLAIMER: This series of works was designed so as to be impossible to photograph, in reaction to the tyranny of Instagram. Standing in front of one, with your two eyes, you look into a fully three-dimensional scene, like one of those museum dioramas. Every element has been sculpted, and you can look around and discover new details, the perspective changing as you move your head. But photograph it, and the space collapses. So here I am, hoist by my own petard!
The series is called Memento Mori, densely layered narrative tableaux that investigate the philosophical and emotional dimensions of death, variously seen as erasure, exile, annihilation, transformation, forgetting; each one based on the loss of a significant person in my life.
Abjects
2016. 30pp book of photographs. Edition of 20. 10 x 10 x 0.5 cm.
Sitting in bars and restaurants, I find my hands just making things out of the detritus on the table – peanut shells, bottle tops, toothpicks etc. A rude and nervous habit. But I started photographing the results. A timid and insignificant riposte to the big, shiny art of our era.
Cataclysm
Metempsychosis
Abjects