Biography

"I work more like a painter or sculptor than a photographer — the image is constructed rather than capturing something existing, and working on a small scale gives me enormous freedom within very rigid confines. Building the models is full of limitations. Both the limit of the materials and the amount of detail possible, many things have to be altered and omitted, much like how we reconstruct it, each time we access a memory. I'm more interested in how that memory felt, than how it 'really was'. The walls felt cool, or the flowers on the table seemed transparent… that was what was important… and so the process becomes a kind of boiling down to the essence of that moment, emotion or scene I'm trying to encompass. It is like a condensed reality, where new questions and meanings might be found…"