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These dry, whimsical photographs were made with domestic objects or in domestic settings and are intentionally open-ended narratives. The figurative language within the pictures makes referenced to the human figure. Objects are repeated within the series in order to create a formal dialogue between photographs. There were a number of conceptual and formal influences, here are a few: cartoons produced by Frederick Quimby, Roland Barthes’ essay The Rhetoric of the Image, Alfred Hitchock’s movies, table top photography, prose poetry, literary nonsense and animism.
The 'Flowers' series is a contemporary rephrasing of the vanitas flower piece, inspired by the Dutch flower painters of the late 17th Century. The flower arrangements here are made up entirely of artificial flowers, silk and plastic, alongside toy flies, snakes and other reptiles. Every detail of the photographs is intended to mimic that which it is not; not natural, not the original, not a painting, not in a great British art museum. The plastic flowers become a symbol of our contemporary excesses, and willingness to replace the real with an easy-to-care-for copy.
The 'Flowers' series is a contemporary rephrasing of the vanitas flower piece, inspired by the Dutch flower painters of the late 17th Century. The flower arrangements here are made up entirely of artificial flowers, silk and plastic, alongside toy flies, snakes and other reptiles. Every detail of the photographs is intended to mimic that which it is not; not natural, not the original, not a painting, not in a great British art museum. The plastic flowers become a symbol of our contemporary excesses, and willingness to replace the real with an easy-to-care-for copy
The 'Flowers' series is a contemporary rephrasing of the vanitas flower piece, inspired by the Dutch flower painters of the late 17th Century. The flower arrangements here are made up entirely of artificial flowers, silk and plastic, alongside toy flies, snakes and other reptiles. Every detail of the photographs is intended to mimic that which it is not; not natural, not the original, not a painting, not in a great British art museum. The plastic flowers become a symbol of our contemporary excesses, and willingness to replace the real with an easy-to-care-for copy
The 'Flowers' series is a contemporary rephrasing of the vanitas flower piece, inspired by the Dutch flower painters of the late 17th Century. The flower arrangements here are made up entirely of artificial flowers, silk and plastic, alongside toy flies, snakes and other reptiles. Every detail of the photographs is intended to mimic that which it is not; not natural, not the original, not a painting, not in a great British art museum. The plastic flowers become a symbol of our contemporary excesses, and willingness to replace the real with an easy-to-care-for copy
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These dry, whimsical photographs were made with domestic objects or in domestic settings and are intentionally open-ended narratives. The figurative language within the pictures makes referenced to the human figure. Objects are repeated within the series in order to create a formal dialogue between photographs. There were a number of conceptual and formal influences, here are a few: cartoons produced by Frederick Quimby, Roland Barthes’ essay The Rhetoric of the Image, Alfred Hitchock’s movies, table top photography, prose poetry, literary nonsense and animism.

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These dry, whimsical photographs were made with domestic objects or in domestic settings and are intentionally open-ended narratives. The figurative language within the pictures makes referenced to the human figure. Objects are repeated within the series in order to create a formal dialogue between photographs. There were a number of conceptual and formal influences, here are a few: cartoons produced by Frederick Quimby, Roland Barthes’ essay The Rhetoric of the Image, Alfred Hitchock’s movies, table top photography, prose poetry, literary nonsense and animism.