Art Projects
Sample stills from art projects. Full projects can be viewed on request.
Chair: A study in healing and the spaces we create
Healing and introspection require us to make room and sit in the process. It can be painful and destructive. The end may even look a lot like the beginning, but this does not mean there isn’t progress. The chair is placed and the dream-like room forms around it through the first section, creating the space in which “discussion” takes place. The discussion figures use the space over time and refuse to acknowledge the viewer as one of their own as their healing is not yet ready for the public. The room will then dissolve and the chair is destroyed, replaced by a similar chair amongst the remnants of the old. A new space is formed for a new discussion and the process of healing can continue.
Winning piece in the Dark Peak Photo Competition 2024
Ilford HP5 Plus 120 film using a Kodak Brownie No.2 (1902)
Rotting: A growing sculpture of depression
Rotting is a sculpture made of a figure spending life breaking down in bed made of materials taken from the room that they spent so long in. The sculpted figure grows plants over months out of the “detritus” produced from their time reflecting. Along with this piece comes a reflection written by the figure toward the end of their time “rotting in bed.”
“Rotting”. A word with connotations of decay and destruction; an acceptance that an end will consume us. It is a state I find myself in more frequently than I’d like to admit. Lying in wait for an end that doesn’t come as promised, instead I continue on to feel and process life.
In this state I have wallowed, numbed, reflected, and yearned. All proof of my existence contrary to the word itself. “Rotting”. Despite my best lack of effort I have not decayed but have grown. No time was spent breaking down my personality that did not produce change.
New meaning has been brought to the word. “Rotting”. A beauty in the failure of decay and the persistence of growth in life. Developing a changing, healing human.
I will live one day. For now I wish to rot.
Kodak Portra 400 35mm using a Miranda Sensorex (1966)
A Haircut
Overstimulation and depression are common in those with autism. This photo follows a haircut given at 4am where the figure cannot stand the feeling of their long hair but it does not fix the sensations that are plaging him. The figure avoids looking in the mirror, staring at the remnants of his work in the sink. Not proud, not devastated. Too lost in the sensation to feel at this time. The layered exposure has a poem later written about this experience. Due to AI poisoning on this site this is less legible here.
“The mirror shows absence,
a rough-cut reminder of sensations,
memories in tangles on the floor.
Strands clutched in hand,
remnants of a long-lost person,
willing the clock to turn back.
But time keeps moving,
and hair grows.
As do I.”
Kodak Portra 400 35mm using a Miranda Sensorex (1966)
To Flow and Follow: A study of emotional labour
To Flow and Follow are clay life masks of my own face suspended on a steel frame. Water flows over the sculpture and slowly, sometimes dramatically. degrades the link between and the faces of the people depicted. It ran for 3 weeks, live streamed continuously, until it was time to say goodbye. A short reflection repeated hourly on screen, only accompanied by the sound of water flowing and time passing by.
“Emotion is the foundation of a close relationship, the proof of care and love is in the work we do to maintain these relationships. This emotional labour, if not reciprocated, can also degrade a relationship. Those suffering can often be consumed by it, with less space for others. Isolating themselves and putting the bulk of the labour on those around them. Resentment can build and details of the relationship can wash away; Like clay in water.”
Ilford HP5 PLUS 400 35mm using Fujifilm FZ-3000 ZOOM Date (1991) and digital video
