Re/Place
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Project Statement (2020-
In this series, photography begins as an archaeological process. Proceeding room by room, I take photographs of my domestic surroundings, excavating them in search of their essential lines and forms. Once freed from their conventional context, these found artefacts become elements of my own visual vocabulary of place. Looking through the lens of Modernist art, I arrange these into architectural grids in ways that allow me to re-interpret edges and boundaries, expand form and merge or accentuate colour. Through this compositional process I am able to find a new way of relating to my sense of place—no longer bricks, mortar and memories, but instead rhythmic explorations of motion and stillness, structure and dissolution, and contrast and harmony.