Displaced:

Of paper dreams and digital realities. A tension exists today between the established world of paper and the allure of a digitalised fantasy land. We become aware of our fetish for the tangible object yet lust after the ephemeral nature of the pixel. I am interested in exploring this tension and the ways in which concepts of reality are twisted by certain ways of presenting a photograph. By physically ripping constructed or found images from their original context and re-photographing them within new environments I hope to question the natural distrust engendered by the art of digital manipulation. My own use of digital tools adds to the mystery of the images by further blurring the boundaries of imaginary and real, digital and tangible. This project has been a playful exploration of these themes, drawing on an Alice in Wonderland sense of adventure and scale where paper people can walk among us. These people are displaced, exploring a new environment both in their physical manifestations and in the way that they traverse the boundaries of photographic reality.