ABOUT ME
Student of Photography and Lens Based Media at Limerick School of Art and Design.
It can be easy to allow preconceptions of a place such as Limerick to influence our experience of the city, particularly as an outsider. I take a phenomenological approach to urban wandering and photographing the city.
The photographs I take are a natural response to a given space or object.
From photographic exercise I assemble and construct new images. This allows me to confront the city in a liberating way. It is about offering possibility and creation, an alternate perception from the existing urban landscape without being completely representational.
Constructions of buildings and objects make up the majority of this body of work. Initially it is the brutally raw and formal qualities which I record from architecture. Mundane objects, structures, shells, industrial design and urban landscapes offer the potential for exploration. Much of these spaces are globalized, repetitive landscapes, which are familiar and widespread.
I then reconstruct these photographs in the studio. To make new versions, new spaces, realities forming an alternate vision of the world. These images are influenced by sci-fi imagery and post-modern dystopian anxieties.
Site audio: Dreams - n u a g e s
Dreams includes excerpts from the seminar From Time to Eternity by Alan Watts, 1959.
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