Statement

I am a photomedia artist, investigating the unconscious mind. THE MIND IS A CURIOUS THING. Despite over 200 years of psychology, the unconscious remains as vague and powerful as the gods it emancipated itself from. As a reservoir of our past experiences, it stores urges and feelings that we rationally have no access to. However, some images can open these doors, trigger emotions and unlock memories. Using archetypes and symbolic acts, the work speaks the language of the unconscious and communicates on a dreamlike level. My visual poetry transports the viewer between the sublime and the uncanny – where the attributes of photography, painting, theatre and film unite. WORKING LIKE A MOTH I only work at night, with minimal equipment, an in-camera approach and without digital manipulation. Like a moth, I roam the streets searching for light, practicing what I have termed ‘Inverted Street Photography’: instead of exploring stories, a place or a person, I hijack and transform what I see in front of my camera into a symbol for the timeless workings of the mind. I also stage images with models to create a portrait of the Collective Unconscious. To develop ideas and impulses for the shoot, I map the overlapping areas of my unconscious and the model's. I am then guided by the dynamics of the shoot to move deeper down the rabbit hole.