Statement 2005/09:

My work explores the co-dependent relationship between consumption and power, identity and autonomy, and the documentation and harvesting of processes within the socio-psycho geography of our collective experience.

From banking debt to branding, multinational control to the chemicals contained within the air we breathe. We consume to cement the notion of our identity and minute-by-minute we are consumed by the vehicles that deliver this 'knowledge'.

From the dangers of terrorism to the threat of extreme weather, from global warming to hospital super-bugs...we are on the 'supposed' brink of being consumed by forces larger than our singular consciousness can prevent.

A new set of meta-narratives, that runs counter to our post-modern disregard of overarching belief systems, is playing out within our emotions, behaviours and responses:

 

I am in deficit, I am weak 

I purchase, I am fulfilled 

 

We're safe - We're at risk

 

You're one of us - You are 'other'

You're a fellow human - You are a terrorist

  

I don't fit in, I am an outsider

I become more like you, I am a part of your collective

 

I explore the dichotomy inherent within such executions of power within varying constructs, both social and political, via the use of Installation, Moving Image and Sculptural approaches. As through artistic intervention and analysis it's possible to reveal the structures, both economic and social, that administer and reveal our movements, thoughts, inclinations and actions.