Artist Statement
My work explores the relationship between perception, ambiguity, and the unknowable. Using photography as a material rather than a documentary tool, I create images that occupy uncertain territory between recognition and obscurity, evidence and invention, presence and absence.
Through processes including multiple exposure, light painting, and the construction of enigmatic forms and spaces, the work investigates how meaning is generated when certainty is unavailable. Figures emerge from darkness, artefacts appear detached from any clear origin, and openings suggest passage without revealing a destination. These images offer fragments rather than answers, inviting viewers to navigate the space between what is seen and what is imagined.
Underlying the work is an interest in the limits of interpretation. Whether encountering an unfamiliar object, an unstable presence, or a threshold that may lead nowhere, we instinctively search for coherence, projecting narratives onto incomplete information. The images operate within this tension, drawing attention to the ways knowledge is shaped by perception, memory, belief, and speculation.
My experience of autistic perception informs this approach. Sensory and emotional experience can often feel intensified, fragmented, or resistant to language, and the work reflects this condition not through direct explanation but through atmosphere, structure, and visual uncertainty. Photography becomes a means of translating states that are difficult to articulate, creating forms that hover between the internal and external, the psychological and the material.
Rather than presenting fixed meanings, the work functions as a series of encounters with things that remain partially beyond reach. It seeks to hold space for mystery, recognising that some experiences, histories, and presences can never be fully known, only approached through traces, projections, and acts of looking.
A selection of my work has recently been featured in Dodho Magazine. Click here to view.