My work primarily focuses on video installations that opens a space, and forms an intimate relationship with the viewer, often by imitating images that the viewer themselves can familiarise with. Using whatever device I have in hand at the time, often my iPhone, I allow myself to be provoked by a pause or moment in a time which is full of constant transitioning and movement. This can be seen in for instance, our all too familiar train and car journeys where one’s emotional gaze is often caught by a certain object for seconds, much like our own memories. Whilst spending time at home helps me to recognise these universal experiences of shelter, the mundane, presence, routine and contemplation in time. As well as juxtaposing private and public realms, ultimately, I am most drawn to finding similarities in the two, where a private space can be felt in public realms. For example, park benches situated in the shared public space are often felt as a private space that can be interfered by anyone as a place of transition and self awareness. I begin to develop a personal language to my footage which ordinarily derives from a place within the spaces of ‘home’. I interpret the image as a sensory vehicle for the most occurring thoughts (which originates from a dwelling held in an emotion). The result that comes from collating these still moving images into one, only emphasises the element of time that needs to be heard and seen as the only force moving each image to the next.

 

Charlotte Prodger describes the “intertwined relationship between the body and technology” as our phone is clearly symbolic of many necessities we require from daily life, such as a mode of communication, but also a device for our own archive of media journaling.

 

As I record the world, I watch bodies moving as instruments that catalyse a scene in life for a certain period of time. The element of chance is prevalent in what happens during this time- something that I cannot predict or control and this feels exciting.