Sitting with the concept of ‘absence’ is the focus of my current practice. Considering how I can make absence present? I’m interested in materialising the weight of feeling as though someone, something or a feeling is missing from you. Particularly through the lens of the postmodern condition, and its effect of mass isolation and hyperreality. I’m trying to capture this intangible experience of absence, representing a conceptualised space that exists as a void in my mind, as something that takes up physical space through the use of print, text and video.

Questioning whether this physical creation can fill that void, or if it is simply a replica of emptiness? My work feels like a solemn memory, often blurred and frayed, like a feeling that is fleeting. It conveys a solitude, distanced from the constraints of reality. My research is heavily influenced by existentialist philosophy, which interrogates the process of carving out one's own personal meaning in a supposedly meaningless life. As well as postmodernist philosophies, which aim to understand the universal truths and modern identity.