‘What Was (and no longer is)’
‘What Was (and no longer is)’ was born from an aching, low-burning anxiety for the difficulties of the present and the uncertainties of the future.
The use of alternative photographic processes represents a source of comfort and emotional catharsis. The significance of the shell lies within its figurative potential for inhabitation and shelter from the perils of the outside world; like a miniscule microcosm, its contents unbeknownst to us, contained within a perfect spiral.
The prints, translated into a digital format via a scanner, a medium that bridges the gap between analogue and digital, explore and overstep the boundaries of the physical and the ethereal.
The result is a triptych of scanographs, each one made up of its own triptych of shells that display the progressive deterioration of the subject from its integral structure to an undistinguishable virtual form.
