Public Story
My Corona
This new series challenges my usual social documentary approach. I no longer “take” photographs but create fantasies that come from within myself, constructed to tell a story. Using post-processing techniques, the images become an alternate reality, a temporary escape from the real world.
Using the limitations of the home as my inspiration, the exhibition creates a playful but serious, personal perspective on our shared experience.
The work explores the benefits of the natural environment for mental wellbeing, and continuing to interact with the outdoors became for me an important part of managing lockdown. In the series I also examined the Yin and Yang of remoteness and connection. While we might sometimes take for granted our habitual access to friends and community, once juxtaposed both remoteness and connection become more powerful. Without one the other has little meaning.