Untitled (Apple 11) Photography It functions as a reflexive

It functions as a reflexive memory system: observing the viewer and feeding that experience back into itself

The house was still

but essentially my work emerges from the physical process of painting

suggesting that loss can open unexpected forms of seeing

which explores the themes of displacement and alienation experienced by a family living in colonial Africa

Untitled (Apple 11) Photography It functions as a reflexiveThe apple emerged as a recurring form within an image minded process, as something close to a mantra. The apple provides a tool, an inroad to mark making, and in its simplicity could be a way to both reach into the collective consciousness and resist it, to mark it with a line that is mine. At the heart of this work lies a tension between image and material, the mechanical and the intimate. The apple is so embedded in the collective image bank that it