confessionals

My current artistic practice is rooted in an examination of how I can gain deeper self-knowledge, by linking my childhood memories - and my recollection of them - to my current thoughts and behaviours. The studio and the darkroom facilitates a form of auto-therapy.

In a trance of introspection, I began to recollect my childhood memories to link my current thoughts and behaviours to gain a deeper self-knowledge. The expression or performance of my identity is informed by these memories: those that are recalled and those that remain hidden below the surface.

Confessionals is a series of analogue still-life photographs rooted in my autobiographical memory. The studio and the darkroom serve as the physical space where a meditative state facilitates a form of auto-therapy. The accessed childhood memories, first voiced as a textual confession, are used to construct an image as a method of enriching my understanding of the self.