Talismans
In this work I investigate the frailty of the body: softness and strength, sweetness and threat, which can exist both in contrast and in harmony.
These portraits deliberate a dreamlike state, a transportation of the unconsciousness into physicality. The earth, the natural world and the human form interact here as they might in the realm of myth. Poets proclaim that the soul resides between the teeth, spirit beneath the skin, and that the world of nature and the human being have an interconnection and reliance we no longer see. Through the presence of objects and metaphors, which are also associated with ritual, the images explore such transformative concepts. In myth, women become trees and men turn into flowers: it is this traversing motion between the land and the body and its inherent transience that underpins the work. Attempting to re-establish the more iconic aspect of the genres of landscape and portraiture photography, I use a centred composition and a small depth of field to repartition the frame: to divide the boundaries between the real and unreal, threatening and comforting, beautiful and repulsive, through this metamorphosis.
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