the specifics 

the specifics

My work is a rebellion against time, an attempt to retain what time cannot help but destroy, if only for a short while. The preservation of fleeting seconds highlights their absence, the stillness and silence of thoughts and moments alludes to their transience and the impossibility of truly retaining anything.

I consider my work to be an ongoing attempt to highlight the strangeness and wonder of being: simple objects become complicated, the mundane provokes awe, and it becomes impossible to understand the everyday and overlooked. There is an enormous distance that will always exist between our mental selves and the physical presence of the world around us. We will never be able to penetrate this mass and so its otherness will never cease to amaze us – everything becomes important.

Life is an unremitting series of ordinary events and it is this ordinariness that fascinates me – the irrelevant, the nothing, the substance of our day-to-day lives.

My materials are modest and clumsy; they ask for nothing, they present themselves openly and honestly. I don’t want things to be neat, I want them to be old and used and lived with. I want to provoke curiosity in the banal and the trivial. I want to state the obvious until it ceases to be obvious.

My work consists of simple gestures and fleeting ideas, like half-thoughts hovering unspoken in the air – thoughts that appear to provoke other thoughts, thoughts that seem to be abandoned half-finished, thoughts that suggest absence. The idea that ‘nothing’ is a possibility is hinted at, that ‘nothing’ exists, or more accurately, that ‘something’, at some point, could no longer exist.