"Who?"

As a photography-based artist, I imagine myself in a dark room facing a two-way mirror. My camera is set up to shoot whatever I see through the glass. In the room is a single candle providing faint illumination and casting a ‘reflection’ on the glass. The camera catches both the external image and the inner reflection. It helps me see inward as well as outward.
Having moved around much of my life and grown up in many different cultural environments, I have developed a profound interest in the connected themes of duality and liminality. I am fascinated with how visual metaphor can illuminate (perhaps change) perception.
“Who?” is an endeavor to further develop these themes.
It is a playful exploration - and perceptual challenge - of the literal and figurative notions of ‘portrait’ by photographing subjects in panoramic environments. Further perspective ‘distortion’ is explored by referencing the various facets of a subject’s personality by photographing multiples of each subject, the number of which is determined through extensive dialogue.
It is also an exploration of understanding and communication - of overcoming barriers to communication. Having recently been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrom - one aspect of which is that non- verbal communication seems a foreign language - “Who?” has become a therapeutic device. Each image completed changes my perception, alters - improves - my ability to see.