HEAT, SHADOWS AND BURDEN
This work emerges from the negative space of the mind. I use the photograph as an instrument to bring order or at least meaning to what surrounds me. The images become symbols I encounter daily in the city I live in: urbanisation, politics, drama, tension, heat. A silent minefield pulses beneath it all, with a muted mouth roaming the streets, as if the city's heart beats just slightly off-rhythm imprecise, unstable.
In this series, I shift my exploration of identity outward, toward the city itself a city I think of as a kind of “New World,” one that hovers just inches above a savage, dangerous ground. The construction of this world is tied intimately to the labourers who build it, sustain it, and dwell within it.
This city,this world,often alienates the very people who create and inhabit it. I have walked in two worlds. In the process of making images, I try to trace these worlds with silver halides, seeking to expose whatever truth or lie lingers just beneath the surface.