My practice spans across photography, scanography, drawing and print. My work examines the treatment of the human body as a subject, but also as a sculptural medium. Drawing on ideas of restriction as a form of care and as a form of discipline, my work occupies a space critically in-between identities. I aim to create a tension between the observer and observed, often by presenting the viewer with an uncertain view of the human form. My practice begins with a series of preliminary drawings and prints which are used as reference material for photographs and scans. By binding the subject in fabric, I seek to distort the boundaries of the human body. The creation of these bulges of flesh mutates the subjects limbs into its own organism. This leads into my interest of the abnormal and macabre aspects of inhabiting a body, particularly in relation to ideas of dysmorphia and dissociation. My work also includes ideas of fetishism and irony, particularly in relation to my digital pin-hole camera. These images are captured using a camera obscura placed on top of a flatbed scanner. This experimental camera captures ghostly, unclear images that mimic the style and aesthetic of analog photography. Drawing on inspiration from artists such as Sally Mann, Zdzisław Beksiński and Francesca Woodman, I am fascinated by the portrayal of the figure in contemporary photography. These artist document the body at its moment of exposure, creating an identity separate from the subject. I often draw on the aesthetics and themes of these artists, pushing the bodies boundary to its limits in an almost scientific matter.
