Exhibition Invite

This exhibition, the culmination of a series of photographs made between 2012 and 2017, embodies the period of grief, mourning and adjustment prior to and for several years after the passing of my mother. While my process was driven initially by a motivation to come to terms with this specific loss, this body of work also reflects on notions of loss associated with the passage of time.

 ‘Windrift’, the name of my childhood home, refers to the relentless winds that batter the suburb of Pinelands. The exhibition explores the complexity of suburbia where ideas of life as comfortable, clean and ordered easily slip into discomfit, sadness and perhaps even failure and unrealized expectations. Yet, despite the malaise associated with suburbia, it is nevertheless ‘home’.

Starting from the premise that photography, by its nature, objectifies, I consider that in an autobiographical mode of photographing, where subject and object merge, objectification is lessened. In this way photographs may open up a space of encounter and thus enable an interconnection between people.