My practice examines the psychological impact of mass media and screen based technologies on society’s relationship with reality. I’m also interested in the gaps and fissures between moving and still imagery; painting and film. My work originates from staged photographs or documented acts sited in overwhelming or unsettling locations and is completed as large scale photographic prints, digital projections, or projected environments. Through the process of editing my aim is to confound the viewer’s expectations of realism by creating highly manipulated scenes where linear narrative is compressed, compromised or suspended. Hovering between any specific time, place or genre, my work offers an alternative view of the world; made up of associative readings.
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