There is so much literature and research on memory and photography that it is hard to know where to start. Therefore, I wanted to begin and open this conversation by sharing a photograph from my past. The following memory is one I believe only I will remember and concerns an image I no longer have.
Read More…My brain has been full of questions interrogating my own feelings concerning my creative work and practice. My one plan for October was simply to ‘reflect’ but each question I asked myself produced more. Sentences, phrases, words and letters became so overwhelming that they melted from their structures into a dense fog which I could no longer see through.
Read MoreBack in December I visited the UK for the first time in over a year. I hadn’t seen my family since moving to Sweden, since another covid related bereavement and got to spend my Christmas and New Years with them. It was bliss. I was adamant on being in the UK this year for another reason particularly. Me and my twins 30th Birthday.
Read MoreSome of the areas I am interested in and concerned with are phenomenology and photography. In other words, the experience of photographs be that making them, viewing them or the sensory experience. And this particular Series has been reflective of this. Not just the obvious sense of smell being aroused when composing the images, but before this. The cool air and rain on my skin when I hop outside to gather the thyme. The sounds of the scissors snipping the stalks of each plant. This sound unlocked a great and immediate sense of nostalgia and comfort in me. I wonder why.
Read MoreAs an artist, rejection is a experience we all must get used to. Be that entering exhibitions, applying for jobs, submitting written work and research, whatever. Sometimes our work isn’t the right fit, maybe not the right time, maybe there is stronger work from other applicants or maybe it just isn’t to everyone’s taste
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