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phenomena of light are central strands to my practice.
It is the bringing together of these strands – abstraction, surrealism,
the experience of light and space, through the medium of video
that led to my engagement with analogue processes and digital
technologies. I am greatly interested in what emerges from the
synthesis between organic materials / found objects and light; in the
materiality of substances and what arises when these phenomena
are filtered through the mediation of digital technology. I am
fascinated by, what are considered as ‘flaws’, those defects that are
inherent in both organic substances and man made materials. The
same fascination is extended to the quirks of digital media such as
distortion, and compressions of the focal plane that often render
images two dimensional.
These perspectival distortions produce images that resemble mark
making. The animated abstract forms created occur in front of the
camera lens without any intervention or manipulation by software.
No attempt is made to eradicate or to correct through the use of
software the flaws in the materials used. Neither is the evidence of
human agency disguised as the outcome sought is not that which
is seamless and flawless but rather what emerges through the
spontaneous fusion of light and materials.
LIGHT: Refraction (3:44:24) stems from a growing interest in the
latter days of the psychedelic movement, the period from the mid/
late 1960s to early 1970s.
BA Fine Art. Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts. London
MA Photography. London College of Communication, University of the Arts. London
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