The sensation of finding the right image is much like the recalling of a dream that lies just under the surface as you wake. Driven by a sensorial engagement with visual perception – seeking to produce images that evoke sense memories, somatic responses to the visual worlds that are created. 'I associate my recent series with an enduring memory from my childhood. I looked for the first time through a microscope at a small sliver of onion and encountered an unknown world. What I saw had a profound impact on me: I realised that what we see is not necessarily all that can be seen.' These images are populated with organic materials – insect bodies, spider webs, twigs, leaves and moss – that are collected and observed over time. As they dry and decay, these scraps of natural detritus twist and curl, culminating in increasingly gestural forms. Cultivated a mode of photographing these materials designed to bring the viewer into a mindset of wonder, an almost vertiginous reframing of natural elements. Working through the photographic process from the perspective of painterly abstraction, harnessing a visceral fascination with the unseen world.
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