My work focuses on memory, perception and altered realities, it reflects the unstable and uncanny ambiguity of the past, centering around memories as ephemeral relics that can never be fully grasped. I use imagery gathered from my childhood, exploring the past through the lens and understanding of the present. I've focused mainly on portraiture, manipulating the faces and visibility of personal figures in my life. My main body of work includes a series of etchings where these elusive memories and faces become entombed in the material of the plates and reborn through the layers of the print itself, where each print is unique to its counterpart creating an altered state of the same "memory". I use the idea of a "peephole" to investigate how perception can be curated and controlled. I've achieved this by using circles as repeated iconography and the layering of colours to create concealment, controlling the viewers understanding and experience of the piece. My work takes on a sculptural element, where personal items and fossilized memories become trapped and controlled inside metal cages. The enclosure transforms memory into something untouchable, positioning the viewer as a permanent outsider
