Death, lovers, songs and heartbreaks

Death, lovers, songs and heartbreaks is a rumination on fleeting memories. A self indulgent exploration of youth and ageing and the recording of moments in a post digital age. The work is about letting go whilst also clinging tightly to that which will never be again. A collection of altered self portraits, the series is a catharsis embedded in silver. A fixed acknowledgement of the insignificance of existence amongst the noise of egocentric digital identities.

I am my body, I am not my body. I live in a world that tells me that my body is undesirable. I live in a world that makes assumptions based on my body. I live in a world that only recognises queerness in art as sexualisation. My body is quiet, my body aches loudly. My body fails me again and again and again.

These pieces are unique state Wet Plate Collodion images (tintypes) shot in a 4x5" camera that have been embellished with oil pastel and distressed.