My work engages with the presentation, experience and interpretation of imagery via a range of strategies, most often by utilising phenomenological theories of the physicality of our presence and it's impact upon the process of perception.
To this end I work across a range of media from video, and video projection, photography and light boxes, text, drawing and print, that in various ways draw a viewer into an immersive experience whilst simultaneously and intentionally ‘short-circuiting’ that immersion in the moment by engendering an awareness-of-self in relation to the processes of perception and interpretation required by the work.
An example of this is a recent video projection installation 'Duration Reveals Extension' which focuses on the the temporal qualities of spatial perception, aided in this instance by the phenomena of the afterimage; the inverted image that hangs temporarily on the retina when witnessing a brightly flashed image within a darkened environment. This piece explores how we read visual re-presentations of place by building simplified drawings of the installation's architectural environment onto the viewer’s retina as a series of sequenced afterimages.
