SINKING IN AIR

Sinking in Air mediates on Posthuman materiality, exploring notions of agential realism; the connectivity, contingency, cause and effect of all being. Visual responses from an expansive and discursive method of research produce an evolving discourse that uses the materiality of the photographic as a slippery extension of the mind, floating in a liminal landscape soaked in dis-figurative reality.

Bringing into focus ideas of singularity, and physiological intelligence I consider how bodies exist in space and time, not in linear forms but as aggregates of perpetual reformation, mitotic assemblages of mortogenesis. From coral bleachings, to slime moulds and black holes there are connections between these material bruisings, oozings and intelligences. By creating images of amorphic being I intend to address how distance brings new perspective and abstraction, empathy.

With no beginning or end it slips between the imagined and the index pulling at the surface of the image and reinvesting it with a human form of address. Bodies made, bodies grown, warm to cold, fully formed but fractured and out of place. Figures of meat and faces of render there are visual battles between micro and macroscopic of those looking out and others staring back leaking into spaces of discomfort and the sublime.


Digital image, chemical manipulation, velvet c-type 121 x 165 cm (2019)



Photogram, skin, c-type (2019)