My practice is concerned with transition particularly the journey we take in the passages through life towards death. Transition brings a range of experiences: a sense of suspension and a subsequent breakdown and destruction, which occurs as we move from one state to another.
I am interested in the external spaces where transitions take place and the effect of transition upon our internal psychological spaces.These photographs focus on the threshold or “in-between” place of change, the space between two intermediate states. Known as the Liminal, it’s characterized by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy. A place where normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and perception can relax - a situation which can lead to new perspectives.
In these photographs: Seascape 111, the landscape, “Liminal 1” and Passageways all evoke the qualitative experience of the threshold. Their indeterminacy invites the viewer to project from their imagination or to create a narrative to resolve their understanding and perception.
Engaging with the Liminal can evoke powerful feelings of anxiety, a sense of separation and loss. But it can open up the beauty and fragility of life and the possibility of transcendence. From these ordinary and familiar locations we can glimpse something of the extraordinary in our universe.
