Constructed, not Imaged
Everyday subjects placed in familiar settings where they do not belong, to create a surreal new form.
Available as Studio Prints and Limited Editions
The Construction
The images are invented intuitively. They are built through a number of deliberate, repeatable methods that combine historical surrealist procedure with contemporary tools.
1. Fragmentation - A modern application of the Max Ernst photomontage. Combining distinct subjects into original photographs using modern layering techniques.
2. Stabilization - Utilizing my traditional oil on canvas still-life paintings, materially disrupted to create an entirely new, textured composition.
3. Physical Intervention - Scale and perspective are challenged through the physical placement of props, models, and real animals. From yellow rubber ducks to Stormzy and Billy the horses - subjects are photographed in situ to create deliberate errors in reality.
4. Controlled Disruption - The final shift is introduced only after the image is stabilized. Every intervention is tested and refined; a piece is only finished when it resolves into a single, unavoidable surreal inevitable form.
BODIES OF WORK
Each series explores a single idea.
Held within the familiar - until something shifts.
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TRANSFORMATION
Reality, restructured. What was there - made visible.
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DIS-PLACEMENT
Objects placed where they do not belong - yet feel inevitable.