The Layered Archive of Place and Self

My practice is an extensive, interdisciplinary investigation into personal experience, spanning drawing, printmaking, photography, film, sound, live art, performance, and writing. Whether responding to immediate engagements with a physical space or reflecting on memory or societal events, my work explores the subjective relationship between the internal landscape and the external world.

Current research is deeply informed by the concepts of Sense of Place and Psychogeography, documenting my relationship with new and personally significant spaces. Through soundscapes, film, photography, drawing, and print, I map the subtle, often unseen connections that bind us to a location or journey, exploring themes of Place Attachment, Wanderlust, Self-Transcendence and emotional resonance.

Layering is the essential structural and conceptual language of my work. In my drawings and prints, this is expressed through intricate layers of movement, gesture, and mark-making. In film, sound, and photographic works, superimposed elements communicate memory, experience, and emotional, political, or societal references. My travel and allotment diaries synthesize this approach, fusing chronological activities with reflective analyses of the emotional and behavioural experiences of a journey and place. All works are deeply layered and imbued with meaning that operates on multiple sensory and conceptual levels.

My methodology involves the careful collection and curation of a personal archive—images, films, writing and sound snippets—that functions simultaneously as a catalogue of aesthetic, sociological, or political reference points, and as a repository of deeply personal emotional, experiential, and psychological connections. These collected documentations resonate with a psychological truth, acting as keys to an internal dialogue, ready to communicate loaded references or capture fleeting moments.

Ultimately, my layered documentation of what is heard, seen, and felt aims to highlight the ephemeral nature of existence, transforming deeply personal engagements with place and memory into profound reflections on the human condition.