Before books become history, I would like to prove that photography does not only exist on neat, immaculate papers coming fresh from the printers, but it still has a function to be 'the object to age' in a printed form. In my work, I take age as granted with choosing yellow sheets of exercise books,

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textbooks, tape, a geography atlas and all sorts of education as a base.

Here in 'Thought after Taught' I am looking at the images of my everyday life layered onto the material that served so well when leaving school, entering the life where that knowledge is only the entry point into the infinite practice.
Years gone past, and with reevaluating- revising that 'knowledge', I managed to layer my experience (in the form of my photographs)  onto the 'learned' and therefore the work is always in progress, there is no start and no end to it.  The coherence between content and image can be formal,  instinctual, or a requirement of the aesthetic.

'The subjective measurements are as important as the harmony of shape and content. With simple lines and circles, I amuse on the abstract pleasures of our rational minds.' 

As I am very interested in both the image and the paper, and I'd like the industry to turn towards sustainablility where possible, I am more than happy to experiment with photographs of others, making bespoke prints out of someone else's fashion/product/ landscape ...

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Date

May 2019

Type

Editorial, Fashion, Abstract & Fine Art, Still life, Portrait, Colors, Nature, Black and White, Experimental, Photomontage

Methods

Mixed media

Materials

Book

Industries

Education, Fashion, Media

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