‘The empty place of the absent as a place that is not empty: that is the image.’
Jean-Luc Nancy

‘Invisible Edges’ and ‘Obituary’ are installation pieces that explore an interest in the impenetrable experience that occurs when a viewer is presented with both an object and its image. What I am considering here is that whilst images, secondary to objects - establish status, the image trace dissolves the object aura. The image now stands in as surrogate for the object; this relationship is one of tremendous loss, and it is this loss that I draw attention to whilst exploring the subtleties of fragility and mortality.

‘Invisible edges’ focuses on the conjugation of viewer and viewed. This interactive piece created by photographing the reflective glass surface held within a black empty frame and then mounting the photograph of this reflection back within the frame, allows the ‘real’ and represented reflection to be experienced instantaneously. Whilst the reflective qualities of glass and photograph require a literal looking out - back into the world, the double act of the image and reflection engage in a continuous changing composition with each other. This constant movement of unfixable parallels draws attention to the impossible gap between an object and its image.

In ‘Obituary’ a blank piece of paper hangs, threatening to fall in a moment. For me, this white sheet symbolises life with its furtive surfaces. Thus, a seemingly banal threat becomes significant, as this tragic act would create an absence of some kind. With this transience in mind the symbolic potential assigned to the paper places the viewer as possible witness and in this way the papers blankness becomes laden. The hanging paper is filmed and its image projected as part of the exhibition, however the film is not played back in real time and instead occupies a different temporality that leaves the image behind. This duplication of the actual object and image with there positions in time altered is observed by shifting light movements, that mean neither object nor image can be held down – even for a moment.