'Under One's Breath' series, 2007'

These images represent layers of memory that inter-relate with current stimuli; we
recall random images of places, objects and situations, yet hardly ever in a
completely coherent manner.
Assimilating Polaroid and the use of wax has been chosen for its associations with impermanence and fragility, echoing the very properties of memory.
A quote by the Behaviourist J.B Watson summates what is taking place within this
body of work, "Imaging is talking to one's self beneath one's breath."
Watson is discussing the cerebral image, one which is not seen with real eyes; he is
using this as a metaphor to describe the unconscious processing of information we
store in our minds - mental images that are represented in the manner of language.
This is not unlike the idea of walking down a street with random thoughts typically
occurring in an unstructured, unconscious way.
What interests me is the thin line between fact and fiction - the subtle interplay
between past and present and a belief that memory facilitates the merging of the two.

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