Fragility

The human form is made up of various components, which on a day-to-day basis, bares the marks, to the true extent of just how fragile the human body really is.

Solid as we may appear on the outside the simple fact is our fragility begins with skin, an element that can appear as delicate as paper. Before we even reach the inside of our biological make-up, the exterior is an element, which not only symbolizes scarring, but also physically bares the marks of such occurrences, acting as a war-zone at times, approximating an aftermath, through disease, illness, surgery, war, therapy, or scaring, these elements suggest that the body can unduly appear to be an indestructible element, but in reality a fragile creation.

This work metaphorically emphasizes the above point with the use of specific materials: watercolour paper, Silver Gelatin emulsion, and cotton thread. All these elements are tactile and together bare the marks such in the same way as aftermath does on the body. Thus creating a suspension of the human form and the need and desire to restore the body back to its unaltered state.

(This is a installation photograph of the work hung within a exhibition space)

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The Fundamental Makings of A Solitary Voyager

"The photograph infuses almost all levels of memory; even those of which it is not directly part. It constitutes a meta-value of memory construction, its tentacles spread out, blurring and constructing memory in its insistent image."

Material Memories - Photographs as Objects of Memory, Elizabeth Edwards

These set of images represent a snippet from a collection of artifacts which my father has collected over the years. These particular artifacts are connected to his travels as a young man, a voyager, before his responsibilities as a husband and father.

The starting point to a world of travel, 1955

A message in a bottle; a wish cast out to sea....

The break-away from home, 1958

The routes taken

From Singapore to Skipton Yorkshire, 1955

The translator

A little money can bring you a long way...

A true voyager.

Portraiture: Examining the relationship between photographer and subject

Experimental Imagery

Fashion Narrative

Environmental Portraiture