The Garden

A garden grows without permission. 'The Garden' moves through the everyday as through a half-remembered place — between holding on and letting go.

A butter box becomes a construction plank, a construction plank becomes a house, a house becomes a gravestone. People, plants, and animals press against the frame, caught between stillness and escape. The gaze moves between public and private spaces, searching for meaning, form, and boundaries. Light fades to darkness, darkness returns to light.

"The Garden" is a personal and ongoing body of work made between 2022 and 2025. It traces life in a new city, the arrival of a child, and the pull between a former home and the present — the desire to escape, to fit in, to take root somewhere, while remaining unable or unwilling to fully do so.

The photographs are arranged in five sequences, each connecting to the next, and form part of a larger body of work taking the form of a book. It emerges from a recognition of our contemporary condition, the sensation of being spectral witnesses to our own lives as moments slip beyond our grasp. 

In staying with the familiar, something shifts. The ordinary reveals itself as more than it first appeared. The photograph does not simply record. It transforms, quietly, both the one who made it and the one who looks.