The Inspiration

The images for my work come from many sources. I search for ideas in books and magazines about the 19th century but I often refer to photographs from the early part of the 20th Century.

Modernist photographers from this period experimented with interesting perspectives and abrupt cropping which often creates a sense of psychological imbalance. My technique is to make multiple copies of one element within an image and then cut and layer those copies to reconstruct a new image with a 3-D effect. The camera takes a dimensional scene and creates a two- dimensional representation of it; then I do the reverse which makes the image a little less familiar. Creating a third dimension makes it feel like more is concealed.

The idea of the uncanny is a theme common to much of my work and altering photographs in subtle ways establishes new ways of re-seeing the familiar.