Painting

Abstract landscapes

Portraits

Disturbance (2021)
This series of paintings is based on photographs taken at night. The camera’s settings are not adjusted to the dark, so at first the image appears black. I then open it in editing software and increase its brightness, pulling forms from the shadow. Ian Burn’s Xerox Book (1968) — a series of recursive photocopies exposing the faults of machine reproduction — was an important influence for my work.
Some information in the photographs cannot be retrieved through editing: being shot in low light, it is lost in a mist of digital noise. In dealing with a personal loss in 2021, I became interested in the fragility and fraudulence of memory. The faults in the photographs undermine photography’s veracity as a medium and brings it closer to memory.